The media technologies that surround and suffuse our everyday life
profoundly affect our relation to reality. Philosophers since Plato and
Aristotle have sought to understand the complex influence of apparently
simple tools of expression on our understanding and experience of the
world, time, space, materiality and energy. The Digital Image and
Reality takes up this crucial philosophical task for our digital era.
This rich yet accessible work argues that when new visual technologies
arrive to represent and simulate reality, they give rise to nothing less
than a radically different sensual image of the world. Through engaging
with post-cinematic content and the new digital formats in which it
appears, Strutt uncovers and explores how digital image-making is
integral to emergent modes of metaphysical reflection - to speculative
futurism, optimistic nihilism, and ethical plasticity. Ultimately, he
prompts the reader to ask whether the impact of digital image processes
might go even beyond our subjective consciousness of reality, towards
the synthesis of objective actuality itself.