Image : three inquiries in technology and imagination / Mark C. Taylor, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Thomas A. Carlson.

Format:

Book

Series:

Trios (Chicago, Ill.)

Trios

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Religious aspects.

Technology.

Aesthetics--Religious aspects.

Aesthetics.

Religion and astronautics.

Face--Religious aspects.

Face.

Vision--Religious aspects.

Vision.

Philosophical anthropology.

Philosophy and civilization.

Civilization, Modern--20th century.

Civilization, Modern.

Civilization, Modern--21st century.

Physical Description:

271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Three inquiries in technology and imagination

3 inquiries in technology and imagination

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Summary:

"What are the primary characteristics that define what it means to be human? And what happens to those characteristics in the face of technology past, present, and future? The three essays in Image, by leading philosophers of religion Mark Taylor, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, and Thomas Carlson, play at this intersection of the human and the technological, building out from Heidegger's notion that humans master the world by picturing or representing the real.Taylor's essay traces a history of capitalism, dwelling on the lack of humility, particularly in the face of our own mortality, that is the persistent failure of humans, before turning to art as a possible way to bring us back to earth and recover humility before it is too late. Rubenstein zeroes in on the delusions of imaginative conquest associated with space travel. Through a genealogy of the modern "view from space" from the iconic Earth rise photo of 1968 up to the new privatized American space race, Rubenstein provides an analysis of the perils of the one-world and the false unity it projects. In his essay, Carlson takes as his starting point the surveillance capitalism of facial recognition technology. He dives deep into Heidegger to meditate on the elimination of individuals through totalizing gestures and the relationship between such elimination and our encounters with mortality. Each of these essays, in its own way, reflects on the nature of imagination, the character of technological vision in contemporary culture, and the implications of these for the kinds of sociality and love that condition our human experience"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Gathering Remains / Mark C. Taylor

Above Us, On Ly Sky / Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Facial Recognition / Thomas A. Carlson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Related Work:

Container of: Carlson, Thomas A. Facial recognition.

Contains:

Container of: Taylor, Mark C., 1945- Gathering remains.

Container of: Rubenstein, Mary-Jane. Above us, only sky.

Other Format:

Online version: Image.

ISBN:

9780226782140

022678214X

9780226782287

022678228X

OCLC:

1200578833

Publisher Number:

99988572747