Mark C Taylor Image: Religion Essays sku-742210965

Image: Three Inquiries in Technology and Imagination (Edition 1) is a hardcover in Religion & Religious Studies Books, listed under Mark C Taylor as sku-742210965. Its three essays, by philosophers of religion Mark C. Taylor, Mary-Jane Rubenstein and Thomas A. Carlson, examine how images and technologies shape modern ways of seeing, creating, storing, transmitting and displaying the world.

Drawing on Heidegger's account of representation, they consider the philosophical, religious, economic, political, imperial and military dimensions of image culture, including its abstraction, anonymity and disconnection. Taylor traces a history of capitalism, its lack of humility in the face of mortality, and the possibility that art can reconnect people to the earth.

Rubenstein examines iconic views from space and the delusions of conquest associated with extraterrestrial travel. Carlson begins with surveillance capitalism and facial recognition, then extends Heidegger's analysis to the loss of individuality under totalizing telematic technologies.

The essays ask how people can act responsibly toward the past while preserving the earth for future generations, proposing practices of imagination grounded in love, humility and attention to material fragility and mortality.