How Long to Read Looking Through Images

How Long Does it Take to Read Looking Through Images?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 46 minutes to read Looking Through Images by Emmanuel Alloa

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. Yet whether eliciting fascinated gazes or iconoclastic repulsion from their beholders, they have hardly ever been seen as true sources of knowledge. They were long viewed as mere appearances, placeholders for the things themselves or deceptive illusions. Today, the traditional critique of the spectacle has given way to an unconditional embrace of the visual. However, we still lack a persuasive theoretical account of how images work. Emmanuel Alloa retraces the history of Western attitudes toward the visual to propose a major rethinking of images as irreplaceable agents of our everyday engagement with the world. He examines how ideas of images and their powers have been constructed in Western humanities, art theory, and philosophy, developing a novel genealogy of both visual studies and the concept of the medium. Alloa reconstructs the earliest Western media theory—Aristotle’s concept of the diaphanous milieu of vision—and the significance of its subsequent erasure in the history of science. Ultimately, he argues for a historically informed phenomenology of images and visual media that explains why images are not simply referential depictions, windows onto the world. Instead, images constantly reactivate the power of appearing. As media of visualization, they allow things to appear that could not be visible except in and through these very material devices.

How long is Looking Through Images?

Looking Through Images by Emmanuel Alloa is 278 pages long, and a total of 71,724 words.

This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 88% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Looking Through Images Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 31 minutes to read Looking Through Images aloud.

What Reading Level is Looking Through Images?

Looking Through Images is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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