To write or read a poem is often to think in distinctively poetic waysβguided by metaphors, sound, rhythms, associative movement, and more. Poetryβs stance toward language creates a particular intelligence of thought and feeling, a compressed articulation that expands inner experience, imagining wit
How images think
β Scribed by Pramod K. Nayar
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 52 KB
- Volume
- 56
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1532-2882
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
How Images Think is an exercise both in philosophical meditation and critical theorizing about media, images, affects, and cognition. Burnett combines the insights of neuroscience with theories of cognition and the computer sciences. He argues that contemporary metaphors-biological or mechanical-about either cognition, images, or computer intelligence severely limit our understanding of the image.
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