{"product_id":"the-perception-machine-isbn-9780262546836","title":"The Perception Machine","description":"\u003cb\u003eA provocative investigation of the future of photography and human perception in the age of AI.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe are constantly photographing and being photographed while feeding machine learning databases with our data, which in turn is used to generate new images. Analyzing the transformation of photography by computation—and the transformation of human perception by algorithmically driven images, from CGI to AI—\u003ci\u003eThe Perception Machine\u003c\/i\u003e investigates what it means for us to live surrounded by image flows and machine eyes. In an astute and engaging argument, Joanna 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten by a theorist-practitioner, the book incorporates Zylinska’s own art projects, some of which have been co-created with AI. The photographs, collages, films, and installations available as part of the book (and its companion website) provide a different mode of thinking about our technological futures, at a local as well as a planetary level. Offering provocative concepts such as eco-eco-punk, AUTO-FOTO-KINO, planetary micro-vision, loser images, and sensography, the book outlines an existential philosophy of messy media for a time when our practices of imaging and self-imaging are being radically redesigned. Importantly, it also offers a new vision of our future.Acknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003ePreface: New Horizons ix\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Photo Flows in the Perception Machine 1\u003cbr\u003e1 Does Photography Have a Future? (Does Anything Else?) 21\u003cbr\u003e2 A Philosophy of After-Photography 49\u003cbr\u003e3 Screen Cuts, or How Not to Play Video Games 67\u003cbr\u003e4 From Machine Vision to a Nontrivial Perception Machine 95\u003cbr\u003e5 AUTO-FOTO-KINO: Photography after Cinema and AI 119\u003cbr\u003e6 Can you Photograph the Future? 147\u003cbr\u003e7 \"Loser Images\" for a Planetary Micro-Vision 167\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Future Sensing in the Metaverse 193\u003cbr\u003eNotes 201\u003cbr\u003eBibliography 245\u003cbr\u003eIndex 263“Zylinska is unquestionably one of today’s top thinker-makers. Working in an eco-feminist key,\u003ci\u003e The Perception Machine\u003c\/i\u003e clocks the present to imagine a future, daring readers to rethink the human and thus the world in relation to image data.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e— Lisa Gitelman, Professor, New York University\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As a leading theorist of photography’s computational afterlife, Zylinska playfully illuminates how the future of humankind and the images we generate are intimately entwined. A unique and important book that deserves to be read widely.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e— Katrina Sluis, Head of Photography \u0026amp; Media Arts, Australian National University; coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Networked Image in Post-Digital Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eJoanna Zylinska is Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice at King’s College London. The author of \u003ci\u003eNonhuman Photography\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press) and many other books on art, technology, and ethics, she is also an artist and curator.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302085218533,"sku":"NP9780262546836","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262546836.jpg?v=1767740921","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-perception-machine-isbn-9780262546836","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}