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Paperback. Condition: New. 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.Praise for Peter Szendy:"From book to book, Peter Szendy is in the process of constructing one of the most singular philosophical oeuvres of our time."- Laurent de Sutter, Focus vif"A writer of exquisite sensitivity and wit, as well as of impeccable clarity."- Gil Anidjar, Columbia University.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. 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.Praise for Peter Szendy:"From book to book, Peter Szendy is in the process of constructing one of the most singular philosophical oeuvres of our time."- Laurent de Sutter, Focus vif"A writer of exquisite sensitivity and wit, as well as of impeccable clarity."- Gil Anidjar, Columbia University.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. When Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an ecology of images in On Photography, she meant it as an exhortation to be vigilant against the onslaught of images from advertising and television that she believed threatened our ability to truly see. Today, beyond 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 to produce and properly view images. His inquisitive mind and sparkling, associative style of writing take us from the animal kingdom to the scientific history of the shadow, the theorems of Pliny to Nabokovs butterflies, the first use of slo-mo in film and the first aerial photograph. A new, ecological approach to images by a renowned philosopher Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condition: New. 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.Praise for Peter Szendy:"From book to book, Peter Szendy is in the process of constructing one of the most singular philosophical oeuvres of our time."- Laurent de Sutter, Focus vif"A writer of exquisite sensitivity and wit, as well as of impeccable clarity."- Gil Anidjar, Columbia University.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A historical, literary, and philosophical study that transforms our understanding of reading"Peter Szendy offers a subtle, persuasive, and unprecedented account of the time of reading and its scene of address, one that is as archaic as it is contemporary. When we read, are we listening to a voice or being read to? If it is not a private and monologic exercise, how do we understand the populated scene of reading? What reads when we read, and how does reading push and pull between temporalities and voices? Why do we keep leaving the text when we seek to obey the injunction to stay within its terms?Questions such as these produce a fresh, even startling, consideration of a wide range of literary and popular texts, including Hobbes Leviathan, Flauberts Madame Bovary, Kants moral injunctions, Sade, Valery, Blanchot, and de Certeau, but also modern fiction, film, audiobooks, and hypertext. The power of reading turns out to belong to its surprising engagement with time and direction: the deliberate reader stays close but strays, tries to fill in the gaps but gets pushed back by a countercurrent. The key to the text is sought outside only to be led back to the text and its failure to deliver a final answer. Equally at odds with older versions of literary formalism that insist on the self-referentiality of the text as well as contextualists who scour an external social order to discover the truth of the text, Szendy approaches that very conflict as an oscillation constitutive of reading itself. Paradoxically, reading is sustained precisely by what interrupts its teleological flow.The result is a comic, profound, and timely reconceptualization of reading which rushes forward only to find itself pushed back into the heart of the text, which discovers that this incessant breaking from the text, this headlong rushing ahead to the world outside the text is a sequence of overreach, delay, and return that forms the ragged rhythm of reading itself. Powers of Reading is a patient, brilliant, and illuminating inquiry into the crosscurrents of voice and address, one that speaks to the speed and complexity of our time, how we are upended by our forward propulsions, to consider how multiple voice, action, and passivity are all rearranged in the scene of reading."Judith Butler, Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley "Reading, be it silent or loud, be it addressed to oneself or to another, is the site of entangled power relations: it is the micropolitics of the distribution of voices"-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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No Binding. Condition: G+/VG-. French-language festival dossier in newspaper format. Presentation brochure "the voice of the gesture" co-organized by Plan K, Ars Musica and Charleroi dances - a truly "epic" festival celebrating the pinnacle of the avant-garde performing arts. CONTENTS: Schedule, announcements, articles/essays, program notes, biographical sketches, etc.; profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings. ARTISTS: Carlotta Ikeda, Frederic Flamand, Fabrizio Plessi, Sofia Gubaidulina Alfred Schnittke, Wim Vandekeybus, Nicole Mossoux, Herve Diasnas, Charles Ives, Lucinda Childs, Claudio Bernardo, Stephen Petronio, Pascal Dusapin, Susanne Linke, Mauricio Kagel, Matthew Hawkins, Gyorgy Kurtag, Trisha Brown, John Cage, Merge Cunningham, Hugues Dufourt, Luigi Nono, Kaija Saariaho, Luca Francesconi, Thierry de Mey. 48 oversize pages. CONDITION: a Good Plus/Very Good Minus copy. The pages are clean and unmarked, with horizontal creasing from being folded in half. Short tears in the center of the spine (on several pages) have been discreetly repaired with library archival tape. This quite respectable item is now in a clear, protective polypropylene bag with backing board. …

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