Teacher
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Di Stefano- Nicola
(syllabus)
Course objective Contemporary society has maximized the impact of images in our ordinary life, revealing their extraordinary communicative power. In fact, images narrate our daily activities. Thanks to modern technologies, we can access to photos of a happy family at the seaside and at the same moment to the reportage of a terrorist attack. What is an image? Can we provide a definition of image? What is the link between images and reality? The aim of the course is to reflect on the notion of image throughout its history, showing, on one side, its conceptual relevance and, on the other side, the impact of images on society and on the education of individuals.
Course contents Part A: Theory and philosophy of images. Representation, icon and symbol. Images and reality. The use of images within science. Images and models. Part B: The impact of images on individuals and societies.
(reference books)
Bibliography Part A choose two among the following texts: • P. Spinicci, Simili alle ombre e al sogno. La filosofia dell’immagine, Bollati Boringhieri, 2008. • J.J. Wunenburger, Filosofia delle immagini, Einaudi, 1999 • D. Lopes, Understanding Picures, Oxford University press, 1996 • J. Hyman, The Objective Eye. Chicago, Chicago University Press, 2006 • J. Kulvicky, On images, Oxford University Press, 2006 • M. Newall, What is a Picture? Depiction, Realism, Abstraction, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Part B
Choose one of the following texts:
• M.J. Mondzain, L’immagine che uccide. La violenza come spettacolo dalle torri gemelle all’Isis, EDB, 2017 • L. Russo (a cura di), Vedere l’invisibile. Nicea e lo statuto dell’immagine. Aesthetica, Palermo, 1999 • M. Bettetini, Contro le immagini. Le radici dell’iconoclastia, Laterza, 2006. • E. Franzini, Fenomenologia dell’invisibile. Al di là dell’immagine. Raffaello Cortina, 2001.
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