Book contents
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Field and Discipline
- 2 Geopolitics and War
- 3 Imperialism
- 4 Anticolonialism
- 5 International Law and International Organization
- 6 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- 7 World Peace
- 8 World Economy
- 9 Men, Women, and Gender
- 10 Public Opinion and Education
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- From The Barbarization of the Skies (1912)
- From “Talk at Aviation Luncheon” (1934)
- From Cultural Relations and Technical Change (1953)
- From “Ideologies of Delayed Industrialization” (1962)
- From Silent Spring (1962)
- From Britain and Atomic Energy, 1939–1945 (1964)
- From The New Left (1971)
- “On Photography” (1973)
- Bertha von Suttner
- Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen
- Margaret Mead
- Mary Matossian
- Rachel Carson
- Margaret Gowing
- Ayn Rand
- Susan Sontag
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- Index
Susan Sontag
from 12 - Technology, Progress, and Environment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2022
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Field and Discipline
- 2 Geopolitics and War
- 3 Imperialism
- 4 Anticolonialism
- 5 International Law and International Organization
- 6 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- 7 World Peace
- 8 World Economy
- 9 Men, Women, and Gender
- 10 Public Opinion and Education
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- From The Barbarization of the Skies (1912)
- From “Talk at Aviation Luncheon” (1934)
- From Cultural Relations and Technical Change (1953)
- From “Ideologies of Delayed Industrialization” (1962)
- From Silent Spring (1962)
- From Britain and Atomic Energy, 1939–1945 (1964)
- From The New Left (1971)
- “On Photography” (1973)
- Bertha von Suttner
- Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen
- Margaret Mead
- Mary Matossian
- Rachel Carson
- Margaret Gowing
- Ayn Rand
- Susan Sontag
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- Index
Summary
We linger unregenerately in Plato’s cave, still reveling, our age-old habit, in mere image of the truth. But being educated by photographs isn’t like being educated by older, more crafted images. For one thing, there are a great many more images around claiming our attention. Daguerre started the inventory, with faces, and since then just about everything has been photographed; or so it seems. This very instability of the photographing eye changes the terms of confinement in the cave, our world. In teaching us a new visual code, photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. The most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as anthology of images.
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- Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon , pp. 678 - 690Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022