Postphenomenology and Imaging

Samantha J. Fried and Robert Rosenberger have put together a volume that I will reference for years to come. Imaging is a topic that is evergreen in reflection on science and technology--and how we rely on visualized data and imagery more broadly in the world every day. This volume represents the best of new work on the topic within philosophy of technology and STS. Imaging is never just imaging, and the volume's contributors make this fact clear, offering accounts of multistability, embodiment, classification, and sociality that accompany the visualization we do. I love how the volume includes both authors working within the postphenomenological tradition and those critical respondents from outside of the subfield. A strength of this volume is its breadth of cases and types of visualization--from satellites to cells to hook-up apps--as well as the in-depth treatment given in each chapter by the authors. I look forward to assigning these essays in my philosophy of technology classes. -- Ashley Shew, Virginia Tech