Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture
The essays in Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture contribute pioneering and revelatory insights into the phenomenon of invisibility, forging new and multi-disciplinary approaches at the intersection of aesthetics, technology, representation and po
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visibility in Visual and Material Culture
Asbjørn Grønstad · Øyvind Vågnes Editors
Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture
Editors Asbjørn Grønstad University of Bergen Bergen, Norway
Øyvind Vågnes University of Bergen Bergen, Norway
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Foreword
In his chapter in this volume, Henrik Gustafsson articulates one of the abiding themes that guided my own exploration of the invisible: “less and less of what determines contemporary life is accessible to human perception.”1 There are many considerations that make this true. For one thing, we have simply become more aware, through the techniques of analytical science, of what was always there out of sight: viruses and bacteria, molecules and atoms, photons of infrared, radio waves, gamma rays and X-rays, quarks and gluons. A cosmos of inconceivably vast, perhaps infinite, extent. Dark matter, which exceeds the mass of all visible matter by a factor of five (and is better called invisible matter, since mere soot is dark). Dark energy, which exceeds the amount of mass–energy inherent in visible and dark matter around three-fold, and which is accelerating the expansion of the universe. It is enough to make you paranoid—or at least to make you wonder whether the central role in the narrative of the universe that we have traditionally allotted to ourselves is a delusion o
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