Conference
20 November 2023
Monday, 20 November 2023, at 17:00
Aula Magna “Gaetano Cima”,
Via Corte d’Appello 87, Cagliari
“Images: from images of what is invisible to images that cannot be seen”
Conference by Paul Dumouchel
“I am interested in how the production and dissemination of images using digital technologies (understood in a broad sense) and these technologies themselves transform our image of the world. That is the relationship between the different types of material images and thinking, or, if you prefer, between the images we make and how we understand of the world. Using two examples, that of images of what is invisible and that of digital images I try to illustrate how the transformation of images transforms our relation to the world. The 20th century as the century of photography will provide the point of reference we need to describe the relevant changes in the images we make. “
Introduces Ivan Blečić.
Paul Dumouchel is Canadian, until recently professor at the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan, where he thought political philosophy and philosophy of science. Now back in Canada he is affiliated with the Department of Philosophy of the University du Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) and visiting researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Droit Public (CRDP) of the University of Montreal.
Served as President of the Canadian Philosophical Association. Co-founder of the Centre de Recherche en Épistémologie Appliée (CREA) at the École Polythechnique in Paris.
Author of Emotions (1999), The Ambivalence of Scarcity and Other Essays (2014) and The Barren Sacrifice (2015); with Reiko Gotoh he edited Against Injustice: The New Economics of Amartya Sen (2009) and Social Bonds as Freedom (2015). His most recent book, with Luisa Damiano, is Living with Robots (2017).