Routledge History of Photography Fragmentation the Photographic Image in Digital Age

This book addresses the impact of cybernetics, post-metaphysical philosophy and new materialisms upon our understanding of the formation, reproduction, storage and circulation of the photographic image from across a number of disciplines. Fragmentation of the Photographic Image in the Digital Age challenges orthodoxies of photographic theory and practice. Beyond understanding the image as a static representation of reality, it shows photography as a linchpin of dynamic developments in augmented intelligence, neuroscience, critical theory, and cybernetic cultures. Through essays by leading philosophers, political theorists, software artists, media researchers, curators, and experimental programmers, photography emerges not as a mimetic or a recording device but simultaneously as a new type of critical discipline and a new art form that stands at the crossroads of visual art, contemporary philosophy, and digital technologies.