In a sceptical exploration of the impact of the visual media from photography to virtual reality the author discounts the new idea of visual technologies displacing the real. He demonstrates that we are not the image and that the world is still real.
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"Robins assesses the nature of our emotional and imaginary investment in the visual media, from photography to virtual reality. He looks at how modern image technologies allow us to monitor and survey the 'real' world while maintaining a distance that somehow denies its reality,…
Into the Image examines visual technology sociologically and, in so doing, rejects the fashionable idea that the new visual technologies are displacing the real.