For an ecology of images / Peter Szendy ; translated by Marco Roth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szendy, Peter, author.

Contributor:

Roth, Marco, 1974- translator.

Standardized Title:

Pour une écologie des images. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Image (Philosophy).

Aesthetics.

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Physical Description:

104 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2025.

Summary:

"When Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an 'ecology of images,' she meant it as an exhortation to be vigilant against the vast surplus of pictures threatening our ability to truly see. Today, beyond the deep anxieties over a diminishing attention economy, concern focuses on the environmental cost of storing and circulating the digital images that confront us with unprecedented speed. Against the disposable rapidity demanded by digital media, Peter Szendy emphasizes the labor and time required for images to develop and come into view. This inquisitive essay takes us from mimicry in the animal kingdom to the history of the shadow, Pliny’s story about the birth of painting to Nabokov’s butterflies, the first use of slo-mo in film to the first aerial photograph."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelude (in memory of Imre Kinszki)

Towards and iconomy on the nonhuman

Interlude. The accident of slow motion

Iconomy on a universal scale.

Notes:

Translation of: Pour une écologie des images.

Originally published in 2021.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Szendy, Peter. For an ecology of images

ISBN:

9781804294314

1804294314

OCLC:

1398568512

Publisher Number:

40032678388