Looking Through Images: A Phenomenology of Visual Media Alloa Emmanuel
Looking Through Images: A Phenomenology of Visual Media Alloa Emmanuel Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. They were long viewed as mere appearances, placeholders for the things…
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Looking Through Images: A Phenomenology of Visual Media Alloa Emmanuel
Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. They were long viewed as mere appearances, placeholders for the things themselves or deceptive illusions. Yet whether eliciting fascinated gazes or iconoclastic repulsion from their beholders, they have hardly ever been seen as true sources of knowledge.
However, we still lack a persuasive theoretical account of how images work.Emmanuel Alloa retraces the history of Western attitudes toward the visual to propose a major rethinking of images as irreplaceable agents of our everyday engagement with the world. Today, the traditional critique of the spectacle has given way to an unconditional embrace of the visual. He examines how ideas of images and their powers have been constructed in Western humanities, art theory, and philosophy, developing a novel genealogy of both visual studies and the concept of the medium.
Alloa reconstructs
toward a phenomenology of acting