Objects of Vision: Making Sense of What We See
Objects of Vision: Making Sense of What We See (Perspectives on Sensory History Book 3)
by A. Joan Saab
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0271088109 | 239 Pages | True EPUB | 36 MB
by A. Joan Saab
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0271088109 | 239 Pages | True EPUB | 36 MB
Advances in technology allow us to see the invisible: fetal heartbeats, seismic activity, cell mutations, virtual space. Yet in an age when experience is so intensely mediated by visual records, the centuries-old realization that knowledge gained through sight is inherently fallible takes on troubling new dimensions. This book considers the ways in which seeing, over time, has become the foundation for knowing (or at least for what we think we know).