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Why is the cinema 100 years old, and not 120 or 150 years old? Why do Kodak film stocks have such trouble capturing non-Caucasian skin tones? Why is high definition analog television not in every home sixteen years after it was introduced? Why did professionals wait thirty years and more before widely adopting 16mm film?Technologies of Seeing offers an analysis of the complex forces pushing and constraining technological developments like these. In the dominant view, technological advance is the simple result of scientific progress. This book contests that view, detailing the ways in which social forces control the media technology agenda at every stage: social necessities push developments, social constraints suppress their disruptive power.
A look at how the internet and post-millenial technologies have transformed our ways of seeing and birthed a new form of culture.The way we see the world has changed drastically since NASA released the blue marble image of the earth taken by Apollo 17 in 1972. No longer a placid slow-moving orb, the
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A revelatory exploration of Winslow Homer’s engagement with photography, shedding new light on his celebrated paintings and works on paperOne of the greatest American painters of the 19th century, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) also maintained a deep engagement with photography throughout his career. Foc
The much-anticipated second edition of the breakthrough book about recovering from online sexual addiction. As the Internet becomes a more powerful, imposing force in our lives, indeed becoming difficult to avoid, the potential for related problems also increases. This includes troubles of a sexual
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Twelve visions of the future―by turns hilarious, frightening, and relevant―from new and established voices in science fiction.In this book, new and established voices in science fiction come together to offer original stories of the future. Ken Liu writes about a virtual currency that hijacks our em
