Releasing the Image: From Literature to New Media - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080476137X ISBN 13: 9780804761376

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2011

Synopsis

From painting to poetry to new media technologies, this book theorizes "the image" beyond the logic of representationalism and provokes new ways of engaging topics of embodiment, agency, history, and technology.

About this title

Review:

"Releasing the Image is a stunning collection of essays by leading philosophers and media theorists who break with notions of the image as frozen or static, and refocus the debate around topics of embodiment, agency, virtuality and temporality. A brilliantly orchestrated work of intelligence and scope."--Tim Lenoir

"Releasing the Image: From Literature to New Media is essential reading for those wishing to track the continued growth of the image as an unsettled figure in current philosophy and media theory. Dynamically viewed through the different perspectives of this book, the image appears multifaceted, protean, alive, and proliferating--as far from the classical framework of the image-as-static-representation as can be."--Chris Burnett "Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism "

About the Author:

Jacques Khalip is Associate Professor of English and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. He is the author of Anonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession (2009).Robert Mitchell is Associate Professor of English at Duke University and author of Bioart and the Vitality of Media (2010).

About this edition

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 080476137X
• ISBN 13: 9780804761376
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Khalip Jacques, Mitchell Robert, Agamben Giorgio, Casarino Cesare, Geimer Peter, Hansen Mark