The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds

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Adrian J. Ivakhiv

The New Lives of Images

Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds

Adrian J. Ivakhiv

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Stanford University Press
30 September 2025

The Arts: General & Reference; Philosophy: aesthetics; Media studies

Series: Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media

In this ambitious new work, eco-philosopher and cultural theorist Adrian Ivakhiv presents an incisive new way of thinking about images and imagination. Drawing upon an immense range of materials, Ivakhiv reassesses the place of imagination in cultural life, analyzing how people have interacted with images in the past and the ways that digital media are profoundly altering these relationships today. The book contributes powerfully to the study of visual culture and digital media, and provides provocative interpretations of a range of important artists and media movements: from the work of photographer Edward Burtynsky, the ambitious multi-screen installations of John Akomfrah, the abstract art of Swedish spiritualist Hilma af Klint, and the Afrofuturism of jazz musicians like Sun Ra and poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs, to the ever-expanding universe of animal videos on YouTube. Along the way, the book delves into animacy and religious imagery, iconophilia and iconoclasm, divination and prophecy, ""truthiness"" and ""enchantment networks,"" online communities and artificial intelligence, the political and affective economies of digital media, and the role of utopian futurism in the present ""climate-colonial Anthropocene"" predicament. The result is a vital contribution toward a more empowering conception of the creative imagination and its possibilities in today's emerging digital ecology.

By: Adrian J. Ivakhiv
Imprint: Stanford University Press
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781503643987
ISBN 10: 1503643980
Series: Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 30 September 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Adrian J. Ivakhiv is J. S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities, Simon Fraser University and Professor Emeritus of Environmental Thought and Culture, University of Vermont. His most recent book is Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times (2018).

Reviews for The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds

""No recent book has such ambition, nor such breadth. The New Lives of Images is two books in one: a novel typology of images inspired by Peirce and Whitehead, and an expanded critical discussion of the current iconosphere, inspired by the digital turn."" --Francesco Casetti, Yale University ""With grace and ease, The New Lives of Images delivers an important and original work for students of visual culture and environmental humanities."" --Seán Cubitt, University of Melbourne