Visual Studies Lab -book club is back for the Fall semester! In the first session, Prof. Joanna Zylinska (King’s College) will join us online to discuss her book the Perception Machine. The session is September 6th from 13.15—14.45.
In Perception Machine (MIT Press), Zylinska analyzes the transformation of photography by computation, and investigates what it means for us to live surrounded by image flows and machine eyes. In an astute and engaging argument Zylinska brings together media theory and neuroscience in a Vilém Flusser–Paul Virilio remix. Her “perception machine” names a technical universe of images and their infrastructures. But it also refers to a sociopolitical condition resulting from today’s automation of vision, imaging—and imagination.