Postphenomenology and Imaging: How to Read Technology (Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology)

This edited collection explores the distinctive contributions of postphenomenological perspectives toward imaging in science, medicine, and everyday life. With its original empirical investigations of imaging across a variety of fields, the book expands our conceptual framework for understanding images. Contents Introduction SECTION 1: Primer Chapter One: A Primer on Postphenomenology and Image Reading SECTION 2: Postphenomenological Thought Experiments: Multiplying Multiples Chapter Two: Affect in the Age of the Image Chapter Three: Science Comes Late to Sonification Chapter Four: Radiology as Skillful Coping and Enactive Hermeneutics SECTION 3: Embodied Postphenomenology: Ethnographies of the Interactive Multiple Chapter Five: Image Interpretation as Object Constitution Chapter Six: “To Be Or Not To Be” Chapter Seven: Not Too Queer To Be Straight And Not Too Straight To Be Queer SECTION 4: Postphenomenology as Practice/Theory Chapter Eight: Feynman Diagrams and the Phenomenology of Paper Tools Chapter Nine: Collective Visual Hermeneutics Chapter Ten: Philosophize In It! Politicize With it! SECTION 5: Critical Respondents Chapter Eleven: Attending to the Otherwise Chapter Twelve: Reflections on Postphenomenological Crossings Chapter Thirteen: Representationalism: A Haunting Index About the Contributors "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"-- Provided by publisher