Image

Why do we want to take refuge in the cyberspace of the internet? How does the screen affect the way we look at the world and our relationship with it? Is our culture drowning in images? To what extent does image affect our lives?

Now, even our sexuality is experienced through virtual realism; We flirt in the pseudo-hygienic environment of cyberspace: without touching! We buy, get married, and drive cars by socializing through a virtual community without leaving home... When we go out, we are constantly watched by security cameras, amateur cameras, and television cameras in stores, museums, cafes, and rallies. We watch the lives and deaths of Others live on television. Name: Technological revolution.

Imaj is a critical examination of the discourses of "technological revolution" and the phenomena such as virtual realism, surveillance and war technologies that form the basis of these discourses. Kevin Robins, who opposes the emptying and fetishization of image technology by treating it as an "entity-in-itself" independent of the social order, political developments and daily lives on which it is based, puts the production, reproduction and dissemination process of techno-culture under a magnifying glass. According to Robins, virtual reality is one of the inevitable political and cultural realities of the world we live in; But this world, institutionalized with the contribution of media theorists, serves to hide the real political concerns and purposes behind the millions of dollars spent on the development of digital image technologies, instead of developing an alternative discourse. Likewise, praise for technological development overshadows the issue of how new forms of communication in this field affect and determine our lives as subjects. However, understanding the nature of techno-culture and its promises is not possible by glorifying it as a utopia disconnected from daily life; It is possible by excavating the "real" political and social reasons. Covering a wide range of topics from virtual reality to digital images, from photography to cinema, from "reality" shows to war bulletins, Image is a book that encourages us to evaluate and question our relationship with technological products and images from a different perspective, in the ordinary moments of daily life that often take our breath away while reading.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 288

Year of Printing: 2013


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Details Publications

First Print Year: 1999

Number of Pages: 288

Language Turkish