Visual Impact: Culture and the Meaning of Images

Visual Impact: Culture and the Meaning of Images
by Terence Wright

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From the office to domestic interiors to shops, images surround us in modern life. The internet has increased this visual onslaught exponentially. Is there a systematic order to this seemingly endless array of pictures and depictions? Looking at picture-making traditions around the world, the author demonstrates how schemes of depiction are ordered throughout all ages and across all cultures.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #190111 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-15
• Released on: 2009-01-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .60" h x 6.10" w x 9.00" l, .70 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Files: Law and Media Technology (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

Files: Law and Media Technology (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
by Cornelia Vismann, Geoffrey Winthrop-Young

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Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo. (What is not on file is not in the world.) Once files are reduced to the status of stylized icons on computer screens, the reign of paper files appears to be over. With the epoch of files coming to an end, we are free to examine its fundamental influence on Western institutions. From a media-theoretical point of view, subject, state, and law reveal themselves to be effects of specific record-keeping and filing practices. Files are not simply administrative tools; they mediate and process legal systems. The genealogy of the law described in Vismann's Files ranges from the work of the Roman magistrates to the concern over one's own file, as expressed in the context of the files kept by the East German State Security. The book concludes with a look at the computer architecture in which all the stacks, files, and registers that had already created order in medieval and early modern administrations make their reappearance.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #419870 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .61" h x 6.10" w x 8.90" l, .73 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 216 pages