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The blind man : a phantasmography, Robert Desjarlais

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The Blind Man: A Phantasmography speaks to complicated forces of perception, imagination, and phantasms of encounter in the contemporary world. In considering photographs he took while he was traveling in France, anthropologist and writer Robert Desjarlais reflects on a few pictures that show the features of a man, apparently blind, who begs for money at a religious site in Paris, frequented by tourists. In perceiving this stranger and the images his appearance projects, he begins to imagine what this man's life is like and how he perceives the world around him. He travels to Paris and tries to meet with the man portrayed in the photographs. Eventually, Desjarlais becomes unsure as to what he sees, hears, or remembers. Though these interpretive dilemmas he senses the complexities of perception, where all is multiple, shifting, spectral, a surge of phantasms in which the actual and the imagined are endlessly blurred and intertwined. His mind shifts from thinking about photographs and images to being fixed on the visceral force of apparitions. His own vision is affected in a troubling way. Ultimately, Desjarlais comes to realize that he, too, is phantomic, that everything in life, and in the lives of others, is phantasmal. Composed of an intricate weave of text and image, The Blind Man attends to pressing issues in contemporary life: the fraught dimensions of photographic capture; encounters with others and alterity; the politics of looking; media images of violence and abjection; and the nature of fantasy and imaginative construal. Through a wide-ranging inquiry into histories of imagination, Desjarlais inscribes the need for a "phantasmography," a writing of phantasms, a graphic inscription of the flows and currents of fantasy and fabulation
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The blind man : a phantasmography
Title
The blind man
Title remainder
a phantasmography
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Robert Desjarlais
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Language
eng
Summary
The Blind Man: A Phantasmography speaks to complicated forces of perception, imagination, and phantasms of encounter in the contemporary world. In considering photographs he took while he was traveling in France, anthropologist and writer Robert Desjarlais reflects on a few pictures that show the features of a man, apparently blind, who begs for money at a religious site in Paris, frequented by tourists. In perceiving this stranger and the images his appearance projects, he begins to imagine what this man's life is like and how he perceives the world around him. He travels to Paris and tries to meet with the man portrayed in the photographs. Eventually, Desjarlais becomes unsure as to what he sees, hears, or remembers. Though these interpretive dilemmas he senses the complexities of perception, where all is multiple, shifting, spectral, a surge of phantasms in which the actual and the imagined are endlessly blurred and intertwined. His mind shifts from thinking about photographs and images to being fixed on the visceral force of apparitions. His own vision is affected in a troubling way. Ultimately, Desjarlais comes to realize that he, too, is phantomic, that everything in life, and in the lives of others, is phantasmal. Composed of an intricate weave of text and image, The Blind Man attends to pressing issues in contemporary life: the fraught dimensions of photographic capture; encounters with others and alterity; the politics of looking; media images of violence and abjection; and the nature of fantasy and imaginative construal. Through a wide-ranging inquiry into histories of imagination, Desjarlais inscribes the need for a "phantasmography," a writing of phantasms, a graphic inscription of the flows and currents of fantasy and fabulation
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Desjarlais, Robert R
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121/.34
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non fiction
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Thinking from elsewhere
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  • Image (Philosophy)
  • Perception (Philosophy)
  • Imagination (Philosophy)
  • Photography
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The blind man : a phantasmography, Robert Desjarlais
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9780823281138
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The blind man : a phantasmography, Robert Desjarlais
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Publication
Distribution
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online resource
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rdacarrier.
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multicolored
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text
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  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Control code
MWT12062420
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource.
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  • online
  • electronic
Governing access note
Digital content provided by hoopla
Isbn
9780823281138
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(electronic bk.)
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • c
Publisher number
MWT12062420
Specific material designation
remote
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12062420
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Mode of access: World Wide Web

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