<nettime> The Age of Total Images download link (and thanks to Geert!)

[Ana Peraica <anaperaica@gmail.com>]

Dear all, 

I would like to share e download link to my new book The Age of Total Images - Disappearance of a Subjective Viewpoint in Post-digital photography, by Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2019. 
https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod34-the-age-of-total-images-disappearance-of-a-subjective-viewpoint-in-post-digital-photography/ <https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod34-the-age-of-total-images-disappearance-of-a-subjective-viewpoint-in-post-digital-photography/>

Please forward the link to anyone who might be interested in it (or lack some readings for the quarantine time). And many thanks to Geert that INC publishing exists! this is precisely time in which we can experience a need for online and CC publishing. Now we know how much we need virtual classes, online books and net art! 

best regards, 

Ana 

In The Age of Total Images, art historian Ana Peraica focuses on the belief that the shape of the planet is two-dimensional which has been reawakened in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and the ways in which these ‘flat Earth’ conspiracy theories are symptomatic of post-digital image culture. Such theories, proven to be false both in Antiquity and Modernity, but once held to be true in the Medieval Period, have influenced a return to a kind of ‘New Medievalism’.

By tracing visual representations of the planet across Western history and culture, Peraica provides support for a media-based explanation behind the reappearance of flat Earth theories. Through an adventurous exploration of the ways the Earth has been represented in sculptural globes, landscape painting, aerial photography, and even new media art, she proposes that a significant reason for the reemergence today in the belief that the world is flat lies in processes and practices of representation which flatten it during the compositing of photographs into ‘total images’. Such images, Peraica argues, are principally characterized by the disappearance of the subjective point of view and angle of view from photography, as the perspectival tool of the camera is being replaced with the technical perspective of the map, and human perception with machine vision, within a polyperspectival assemblage. In the media constellation of these total images, photography is but one layer of visual information among many, serving not to represent some part of the Earth, but to provide an illusion of realism.

Ana Peraica is an art historian whose research focus is on post-digital photography. She is the author of the books Fotografija kao dokaz(Multimedijalni Institute, Zagreb, 2018) and Culture of the Selfie (Theory on Demand #24, 2017), among others, as well as the editor of several readers, including Smuggling Anthologies, Victims Symptom (PTSD and Culture) (Theory on Demand #3, 2009), and Žena na raskrižju ideologija. She teaches at Danube University near Vienna, Austria, and is a visiting lecturer at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, in addition to continuing to run a photographic studio in Split, Croatia, founded in 1932 by her grandfather.

 

COLOPHON

Series: Theory on Demand #34

Author: Ana Peraica

Editor: Devon Schiller

Production: Sepp Eckenhaussen

Cover design: Katja van Stiphout

Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2019

ISBN: 978-94-92302-54-0

Copyright: This publication is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDer- rivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.

 

GET THE BOOK

Print on demand: http://www.lulu.com/shop/ana-peraica/the-age-of-total-images-disappearance-of-a-subjective-viewpoint-in-post- <http://www.lulu.com/shop/ana-peraica/the-age-of-total-images-disappearance-of-a-subjective-viewpoint-in-post->digital-photography/paperback/product-24453991.html

PDF: https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/TheAgeOfTotalImagesPDF.pdf <https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/TheAgeOfTotalImagesPDF.pdf>

ePub: https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/TheAgeOfTotalImages.epub <https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/TheAgeOfTotalImages.epub>

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