Postphenomenology and Imaging: How to Read Technology

by Samantha J. Fried (Editor), Robert Rosenberger (Editor), Robert P. Crease Stony Brook University (Contribution by), Bas de Boer (Contribution by), Anette Forss (Contribution by)

Overview

How 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. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781793604569
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	07/12/2021
Series:	Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Samantha J. Fried is program manager for civic studies and science, technology, and society studies at Tufts University.

Robert Rosenberger is associate professor of philosophy at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Table of Contents

Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

"Samantha J. Fried and Robert Rosenberger have put together a volume that I will reference for years to come. Imaging is a topic that is evergreen in reflection on science and technology—and how we rely on visualized data and imagery more broadly in the world every day. This volume represents the best of new work on the topic within philosophy of technology and STS. Imaging is never just imaging, and the volume's contributors make this fact clear, offering accounts of multistability, embodiment, classification, and sociality that accompany the visualization we do. I love how the volume includes both authors working within the postphenomenological tradition and those critical respondents from outside of the subfield. A strength of this volume is its breadth of cases and types of visualization—from satellites to cells to hook-up apps—as well as the in-depth treatment given in each chapter by the authors. I look forward to assigning these essays in my philosophy of technology classes."

Ashley Shew