Open AccessSeeing Things: Image and Affect
Author(s) -
Maria Angel
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
cultural studies review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1837-8692
pISSN - 1446-8123
DOI - 10.5130/csr.v15i2.2042
Subject(s) - torture , affect (linguistics) , function (biology) , media studies , aesthetics , publishing , sociology , affect theory , epistemology , advertising , psychology , social psychology , art , law , literature , philosophy , political science , human rights , communication , feeling , evolutionary biology , business , biology
In the age of digital media how might we speak about images of torture, and how might we regard the pain of others? Using the examples of a short film by Alejandra Canales which recounts the experience of torture, and the Abu Ghraib photographs, this article seeks to repose the question of the function of the image and its relationship to epistemology. How do we know what we see? And how might we rethink the orthodox function of the image in the age of digital technology? In attempting to answer these questions, I argue that the production of virtual experience is a capacity of the human body, and that image making, like all genres of communication, is a practice in virtual community