Jussi Parikka, Operational Images: From the Visual to the Unvisual, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023, pp. 296

Author Biography

• Barbara Grespi, University of Milan

  Barbara Grespi is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy “Piero Martinetti” of the University of Milan, where she teaches Media Archaeology and Theories of the Image in Motion. Her research has investigated on different levels the non-ocularcentric dimensions of optical media, such as photography, cinema and recently the extended realities. Her focus has been for a long time on gestures and their crucial role of interface between the body and media technologies. Her most recent publications include Il cinema come gesto (2017), Figure del corpo (2019), Harun Farocki (co-ed. 2017), Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture, and the Arts (co-ed. 2020). She is editor of the journal “Cinema&Cie” and affiliated member of the ERC project AN-ICON: An-Iconology: History, Theory, and Practices of Environmental Images.