English | ISBN: 0271088117 | 2021 | 166 pages | PDF | 43 MB

Advances in technology allow us to see the invisible: fetal heartbeats, seismic activity, cell mutations, virtual space. Yet in an age when experience is so intensely mediated by visual records, the centuries-old realization that knowledge gained through sight is inherently fallible takes on troubling new dimensions. This book considers the ways in which seeing, over , has become the foundation for knowing (or at least for what we think we know).