Visual analogy : consciousness as the art of connecting / Barbara Maria Stafford.
1999
BD190 .S78 1999eb
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Title
Visual analogy : consciousness as the art of connecting / Barbara Maria Stafford.
ISBN
9780262284196 (electronic)
0262284197 (electronic)
0585124000 (electronic bk.)
9780585124001 (electronic bk.)
9780262194211
026219421X
0262284197 (electronic)
0585124000 (electronic bk.)
9780585124001 (electronic bk.)
9780262194211
026219421X
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999.
Copyright
©1999
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 219 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
BD190 .S78 1999eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
169
Summary
A groundbreaking book exploring the discovery of sameness in otherness.Recuperating a topic once central to philosophy, theology, rhetoric, and aesthetics, this groundbreaking book explores the discovery of sameness in otherness. Analogy poses an intriguingly ancient and modern conundrum. How, in the face of cultural diversity, can a unique someone or something be perceived as like what it is not? This book is for anyone puzzled by why today, as Barbara Maria Stafford claims, "we possess no language for talking about resemblance, only an exaggerated awareness of difference." Well-designed images, Stafford argues, reveal the mind's intuitive leaps to connect known with unknown experience.The first of four wide-ranging chapters paints a challenging overview of several pressing contemporary issues. Cloning, legal controversies about social inequity, identity politics, electronic copying, and the mimicry of virtual reality expose the need for a nuanced theory of similitude. The second examines the historical tug-of-war between analogy and allegory, or disanalogy. Stafford provocatively suggests that, since the Romantic Era, we have been living in polarizingly allegorical times. The third roots this divisiveness within the momentous shift from a magical universe, modeled on sexual bonds, to an engineered world built of discrete automated units. Finally, recent developments in computational brain research notwithstanding, major phenomenological questions about memory, emotion, intelligence, and awareness beckon. In the fourth chapter, Stafford intervenes in the consciousness debates to propose a humanistic cognitive science with bridging/analogy at its artful core.
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