Description
Book SynopsisHow should we understand the experience of encountering and interpreting images? What are their roles in science and medicine? How do they shape everyday life? Postphenomenology and Imaging: How to Read Technology brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to investigate these questions. The contributors make use of the “postphenomenological” philosophical perspective, applying its distinctive ideas to the study of how images are experienced. These essays offer both philosophical analysis of our conception of images and empirical studies of imaging practice. The contributors analyze concrete examples from a variety of fields of science and medicine, including radiology, neuroscience, cytology, physics, remote sensing, and space science. They also include examples of imaging in everyday life, from smartphone apps to animated GIFs. Edited by Samantha J. Fried and Robert Rosenberger, this collection includes an extensive “primer” chapter introducing and expanding the postphenomenological account of imaging, as well as a set of short pieces by “critical respondents”: prominent scholars who may not self-identify as doing postphenomenology but whose adjacent work is illuminating.
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction
Samantha J. Fried & Robert Rosenberger
SECTION 1: Primer
1. A Primer on Postphenomenology and Image Reading
Robert Rosenberger
SECTION 2: Postphenomenological Thought Experiments: Multiplying Multiples
2. Affect in the Age of the Image: The .gif Use Case
Stacey O. Irwin
3. Science Comes Late to Sonification
Don Ihde
4. Radiology as Skillful Coping and Enactive Hermeneutics: A Critique of Representations and Corresponding Truth
Jan Kyrre Berg Friis
SECTION 3: Embodied Postphenomenology: Ethnographies of the Interactive Multiple
5. Image Interpretation as Object Constitution: Hermeneutic Strategies in Neuroscientific Practice
Bas de Boer
6. “To Be Or Not To Be”: Hermeneutic Relations Through Technology in Clinical Cytology Anette Forss
7. Not Too Queer To Be Straight And Not Too Straight To Be Queer: Becoming Bisexual Through The Screen Of Digital Hook-Up App Bumble
Katie Warfield
SECTION 4: Postphenomenology as Practice/Theory
8. Feynman Diagrams and the Phenomenology of Paper Tools
Robert P. Crease
9. Collective Visual Hermeneutics: How Posthumanist Learning Forms Perception with Technologies
Cathrine Hasse
10. Philosophize In It! Politicize With it!: Postphenomenology and Earth Remote Sensing as Sites of Political/Scientific Intervention
Samantha J. Fried
SECTION 5: Critical Respondents
11. Attending to the Otherwise: Reading Illusions through Virtual Reality
Lisa Messeri
12. Reflections on Postphenomenological Crossings
Janet Vertesi
13. Representationalism and Digital Imagery
Will Sutherland and David Ribes
About the Contributors
