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normal">*Apologies for cross-posting*</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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normal">I wanted to let you know about my new book, <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Nonhuman Photography</i>,
which has just come out from the MIT Press. The book explores the
new vistas and visions we are facing in the current
techno-political conjuncture. It also interrogates the very “we”
of the human standpoint, while extending the scale of analysis to
geological “deep time”. </p>
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You can take a look at the book’s companion website/gallery here: <a
href="https://www.nonhuman.photography/">https://www.nonhuman.photography/</a>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">And here’s the introduction, titled “Capturing the End of
the World”: <a
href="https://www.nonhuman.photography/introduction/">https://www.nonhuman.photography/introduction/</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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normal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">NONHUMAN
PHOTOGRAPHY</b> by Joanna Zylinska (MIT Press, 2017)</p>
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normal"><a
href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/nonhuman-photography">https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/nonhuman-photography</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">Today, in the age of CCTV, drones, medical body scans, and
<span style="color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">satellite images,
photography is increasingly decoupled from human agency and
human vision. In her book <i>Nonhuman Photography</i>, Joanna
Zylinska offers a new philosophy of photography, going beyond
the human-centric view to consider imaging practices from which
the human is absent. Zylinska argues further that even those
images produced by humans, whether artists or amateurs, entail a
nonhuman, mechanical </span>element—that is, they involve the
execution of technical and cultural algorithms that shape our
image-making devices as well as our viewing practices. At the same
time, she notes, photography is increasingly mobilized to document
the precariousness of the human habitat and tasked with helping us
imagine a better tomorrow. With its conjoined human-nonhuman
agency and vision, Zylinska claims, photography functions as both
a form of control and a life-shaping force.<br>
<br>
Zylinska explores the potential of photography for developing new
modes of seeing and imagining, and presents images from her own
photographic practice. She also examines the challenges posed by
digitization to established notions of art, culture, and the
media. In connecting biological extinction and technical
obsolescence, and discussing the parallels between photography and
fossilization, she proposes to understand photography as a
light-induced process of fossilization across media and across
time scales.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Joanna Zylinska</b> is
Professor of New Media and Communications and Co-Head of the
Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University
of London. The author of six books – including <a
href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/minimal-ethics.html"><em><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
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text-underline:none">Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene</span></em></a>
(Open Humanities Press, 2014, <a
href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/minimal-ethics.html">e-version
freely available</a>) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Life
after New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process</i> (with Sarah
Kember; MIT Press, 2012) – she is also a photographic artist and
curator. In 2013 she was Artistic Director of Transitio_MX05
'Biomediations', the biggest Latin American new media festival,
which took place in Mexico City. Her own practice involves
experimenting with different kinds of photomedia. </p>
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Professor Joanna Zylinska
Co-Head of Department of Media and Communications
Goldsmiths, University of London
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.joannazylinska.net">http://www.joannazylinska.net</a>
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