For an Ecology of Images

Peter Szendy, Marco Roth

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French

Verso Books
03 June 2025

Photography & photographs; Philosophy: aesthetics; Material culture

When Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an “ecology of images” in On Photography, she meant it as an exhortation to be vigilant against the onslaught of images from advertising and television that she believed threatened our ability to truly see. Today, beyond deep anxieties over a diminishing “attention economy,” concern focuses on the environmental cost of storing and circulating the digital images that confront us with unprecedented speed.

Against the disposable rapidity demanded by digital media, Peter Szendy emphasizes the labor and time required to produce and properly view images. His inquisitive mind and sparkling, associative style of writing take us from the animal kingdom to the scientific history of the shadow, the theorems of Pliny to Nabokov’s butterflies, the first use of slo-mo in film and the first aerial photograph.

By: Peter Szendy
Translated by: Marco Roth
Imprint: Verso Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 98g
ISBN: 9781804294314
ISBN 10: 1804294314
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 03 June 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter Szendy is David Herlihy Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at Brown University, and one of the most prominent French philosophers writing today. His many books survey the interplay between aesthetic culture and economics, and include All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage and Phantom Limbs: On Musical Bodies. In 2020, he curated an exhibit at the Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris, Le supermarché du visible.

Reviews for For an Ecology of Images

From book to book, Peter Szendy is in the process of constructing one of the most singular philosophical oeuvres of our time. -- Laurent de Sutter * Focus vif * A writer of exquisite sensitivity and wit, as well as of impeccable clarity. -- Gil Anidjar, Columbia University