LEADER 03715nam 2200625 450 001 9910813634603321 005 20231110233326.0 010 $a0-8232-8113-2 010 $a0-8232-8114-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823281145 035 $a(CKB)4100000007101034 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5568655 035 $a(OCoLC)1059451122 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse68832 035 $a(DE-B1597)555508 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823281145 035 $a(OCoLC)1061124237 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5568655 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007101034 100 $a20220526d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe blind man $ea phantasmography /$fRobert Desjarlais 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (233 pages) 225 0 $aThinking from Elsewhere 311 0 $a0-8232-8112-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tcontents --$tPreface --$tPhotography tears the subject from itself --$tPlastic intimacies --$tCorneal abrasion --$tOpticalterities --$tThe delirium of images --$tBaroque vision --$tPhanomenology --$tThe collector of eyes --$tAllusions and Acknowledgments --$tnotes --$tselected bibliography 330 $aThe Blind Man: A Phantasmography examines the complicated forces of perception, imagination, and phantasms of encounter in the contemporary world. In considering photographs he took while he was traveling in France, anthropologist and writer Robert Desjarlais reflects on a few pictures that show the features of a man, apparently blind, who begs for money at a religious site in Paris, frequented by tourists. In perceiving this stranger and the images his appearance projects, he begins to imagine what this man?s life is like and how he perceives the world around him. Written in journal form, the book narrates Desjarlais?s pursuit of the man portrayed in the photographs. He travels to Paris and tries to meet with him. Eventually, Desjarlais becomes unsure as to what he sees, hears, or remembers. Through these interpretive dilemmas he senses the complexities of perception, where all is multiple, shifting, spectral, a surge of phantasms in which the actual and the imagined are endlessly blurred and intertwined. His mind shifts from thinking about photographs and images to being fixed on the visceral force of apparitions. His own vision is affected in a troubling way. Composed of an intricate weave of text and image, The Blind Man attends to pressing issues in contemporary life: the fraught dimensions of photographic capture; encounters with others and alterity; the politics of looking; media images of violence and abjection; and the nature of fantasy and imaginative construal. Through a wide-ranging inquiry into histories of imagination, Desjarlais inscribes the need for a ?phantasmography??a writing of phantasms, a graphic inscription of the flows and currents of fantasy and fabulation. 410 0$aThinking from Elsewhere 606 $aImage (Philosophy) 610 $aFantasy. 610 $aFrance. 610 $aImagination. 610 $aMedia. 610 $aParis. 610 $aPerception. 610 $aPhantomic. 610 $aPhntasms: Photographs. 615 0$aImage (Philosophy) 676 $a128.3 700 $aDesjarlais$b Robert R.$01112570 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813634603321 996 $aThe blind man$93996331 997 $aUNINA