Philosophy
The Future of the Image
by Federico Vercellone
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Thanks to the new technologies, images have become the true obsession of our time. The Internet, smartphones, television, newspapers, and even the instruments of medical research, subject us to a daily bombardment, a constant flow of images which penetrate and overwhelm the canons of cultural transmission and of the interpretation of the present. The age-old conflict between image and word seems to have ended with the unexpected defeat of the latter.
Is it possible to find our way through this new forest without adopting excessively reactive attitudes, tending towards a new iconoclasm? Will we be able to benefit from the potential of images, by recognizing the needs that their hyperproduction expresses, without suffering its violent consequences? The new task is to identify the model of reason for a world where images are no longer appearances but cultural environments.
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Federico Vercellone (Turin, 1955) is Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Turin. He is a member of the editorial Board of “Iris” and the Scientific Com- mittee of the series “Wissenschaftskultur um 1900” edited by Franz Steiner. He has founded CIRM (“Francesco Moiso” Interdepartmental Centre for Research of Morphology at the University of Udine). He is Vice-President of SIE (Società Italiana di Estetica).
His most recent publications include: Estetica dell’Ottocento (Nineteenth-Cen- tury Aesthetics, Il Mulino, 1999), Morfologie del moderno. Saggi di ermeneutica dell’immagine (Morphologies of the Modern: Essays in the Hermeneutics of the Picture, Il Melangolo, 2006), Oltre la bellezza (Beyond Beauty, Il Mulino, 2008;), Pensare per immagini. Tra scienza e arte (Thinking in Pictures, with Olaf Breidbach, Bruno Mondadori, 2010), Dopo la morte dell’arte (After the Death of Art, Il Mulino, 2013), Simboli della fine (Symbols of the End, Il Mulino 2018).
Foreign publications: Nihilismus, German trans. Fink, 1998; Beyond Beauty, English trans., Suny Press, 2017.
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- Publisher Società editrice Il Mulino
- Publication Date February 2017
- Orginal LanguageItalian
- ISBN/Identifier 9788815267511
- Publication Country or regionItaly
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 15 EUR
- Pages139
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleIl futuro dell’immagine
- Copyright Year2017
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