{"product_id":"for-an-ecology-of-images-isbn-9781804294314","title":"For an Ecology of Images","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new, ecological approach to images by a renowned philosopher\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an “ecology of images,” she meant it as an exhortation to be vigilant against the vast surplus of pictures threatening our ability to truly see. Today, beyond the deep anxieties over a diminishing attention economy, concern focuses on the environmental cost of storing and circulating the digital images that confront us with unprecedented speed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAgainst the disposable rapidity demanded by digital media, Peter Szendy emphasizes the labor and time required for images to develop and come into view. This inquisitive essay takes us from mimicry in the animal kingdom to the history of the shadow, Pliny’s story about the birth of painting to Nabokov’s butterflies, the first use of slo-mo in film to the first aerial photograph.Prelude (In memory of Imre Kinszki)\u003cbr\u003e I. Toward an Iconomy of the Nonhuman\u003cbr\u003e Interlude: The Accident of Slow Motion\u003cbr\u003e II. Iconomy on a Universal Scale\"Peter Szendy is a dazzlingly original philosopher, as witty as he is erudite. \u003ci\u003eFor an Ecology of Images\u003c\/i\u003e finds him at the height of his powers, as he outlines what he calls the ‘shadows’ of our future.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Adam Shatz, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Rebel’s Clinic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wide-ranging across the history of science, visual arts, and photography, this short book packs a lot in. Szendy understands the Kabbalistic principle that moving one letter can alter the universe: cosmicomic is cosmiconic, economy is iconomy, ecology is icology. He has shown us how to swim when we are all drowning in pictures.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—John Durham Peters, co-author of \u003ci\u003ePromiscuous Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book made me feel wild reverence, joy, and wonder for everything Szendy looks at—like a six-year-old who, having just learned about sharks, corners you to tell you about “the coolest thing in the world.”\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Our Favorite Books of 2025, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Szendy\u003c\/b\u003e is David Herlihy Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at Brown University. His many books include \u003ci\u003eThe Supermarket of the Visible\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eHits: Philosophy in the Jukebox\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eKant in the Land of the Extraterrestrials\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eAll Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslator \u003cb\u003eMarco Roth\u003c\/b\u003e is a cofounder of \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Scientists: A Family Romance\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300454879461,"sku":"NP9781804294314","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781804294314.jpg?v=1767727539","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/for-an-ecology-of-images-isbn-9781804294314","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}