{"id":10862,"date":"2020-06-26T10:54:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T15:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=10862"},"modified":"2020-12-07T13:43:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T18:43:37","slug":"scenes-in-the-image-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2020\/06\/26\/scenes-in-the-image-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenes in the image-world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here\u2019s a preview in section headings of the book I\u2019m currently writing. It presents a way of thinking about images,<\/a> what they’ve done for people, and how all of that figures into the contemporary world of digital media. It then applies that way of thinking to three sets of images: about humans as the stars of the “AnthropoScene<\/a>,” about animals at its edges, and about gods and other mysteries at another set of edges. Or something like that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

THE NEW LIVES OF IMAGES: Toward an Ontology of the Image-World<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part 1: THE IMAGE
\uf0a7 What is an Image?
\uf0a7 Process Semiotics
\uf0a7 Caveats and Hesitations
\uf0a7 Image Ecologies and Image Regimes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part 2: SIX IMAGE REGIMES
\uf0a7 Animate-Image: The Image that Acts and Affects
\uf0a7 Ideal-Image: The Image that Reveals
\uf0a7 Expressive-Image: The Image that Expresses
\uf0a7 World-Picture: The Image that Copies
\uf0a7 Moving-Image: The Image that Moves
\uf0a7 Image-World: The Endless Image that Consumes, Digests, Transforms, and Excretes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part 3: (POST)HUMAN BECOMINGS IN THE IMAGE-WORLD
\uf0a7 AnthropoScene: The Scene of the Crime
\uf0a7 TherioScene: The Scene at the Inner Edges
\uf0a7 TheoScene: The Scene at the Outer Edges<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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