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In The Brain from 25,000 Feet, Mark A. Changizi defends a non-reductionist philosophy and applies it to a variety of problems in the brain sciences. Some of the key questions answered are as follows. Why do we see visual illusions, and why are illusions inevitable for any finite…
This book offers an original treatment of the lexical form 'look'. The work is innovative in that it establishes that the Columbia School conception of an invariant meaning - hitherto found primarily in grammar - is equally operative in core vocabulary items like 'look' and 'see…
On Not Looking: The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture focuses on the image, and our relationship to it, as a site of ""not looking."" The collection demonstrates that even though we live in an image-saturated culture, many images do not look at what they claim, viewers ofte…
Pt. 1. Images that don't look -- pt. 2. The privilege of the other senses -- pt. 3. Not looking at bodies and cultures on the margins -- pt. 4. Institutions overpower images.
On Not Looking: The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture focuses on the image, and our relationship to it, as a site of "not looking." The collection demonstrates that even though we live in an image-saturated culture, many images do not look at what they claim, viewers often …
On Not Looking: The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture focuses on the image, and our relationship to it, as a site of "not looking." The collection demonstrates that even though we live in an image-saturated culture, many images do not look at what they claim, viewers often …
The first book to cover the entire spectrum of spatial disorientation in flight. This book examines the long history of spatial disorientation in flight, describes the movements of aircraft in mathematical detail, and explains how these movements can conspire to fool human senso…
"Arte e ilusión es un estudio clásico de la creación de imágenes del que Kenneth Clark afirmó que es "uno de los libros de crítica de arte más brillantes que he leído". La obra aspira a responder a una sencilla pregunta: ¿por qué existe el estilo? Aunque la pregunta sea sencilla…