Deck 5: Handling Images

Question 1

Due to their paradigmatic and syntagmatic functions, which kind of images are even more complex to classify than naturalistic images?

A) photographs
B) drawings whose function has been lost to history
C) MRI
D) diagrams

Answer 1

D

Question 2

How many pages of the Illustrated Technical Dictionaries are either without images or populated by images that have no clear use?

A) less than 80
B) as many as 800
C) as many as 8,000
D) no one has bothered to count

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which two words are shared in rhetoric that were applied to both Google Earth discoveries and Wunderkammer ?

A) bizarre and amazing
B) odd and repulsive
C) crazy and cooky
D) none of the above are applicable to either topic

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert's Enclyclopedie was an enormous collaborative project that took more than twenty years to complete during which century?

A) 16^th
B) 17^th
C) 18^th
D) 19^th

Question 5

Which of these cultures had aniconic traditions?

A) Egyptian
B) Nabataean
C) Phoenician
D) all of the above

Question 6

All iconoclasts can be considered to be iconophobes.

Question 7

Which of the following is an example of an onomoclasm?

A) The lack of portraits of Allah
B) The Chinese execution known as "lingchi"
C) both a and b
D) neither a nor b

Question 8

During World War II, images of war were mostly censored by _________________.

A) media outlets
B) the government
C) individuals and communities
D) there was no censorship of war imagery in the 1940's

Question 9

In neogeography, the virtual boundaries drawn on real-life geography is articulated by ____________.

A) property lines as defined by cities
B) 3-D scans of mountain ranges
C) voting registration maps
D) geo-fences

Question 10

Which term best describes counter-visuality, or the observation of institutions of authority by citizens?

A) sousveillance
B) equiveillance
C) synopticon
D) panopticon

Question 11

Jeremy Bentham's "model prison," which allowed for surveillance of all prisoners from a central inspection house, is better known as ______________.

A) sousveillance
B) panopticon
C) parveillance
D) synopticon

Question 12

"Cabinets of Wonder," also known as _______, were collections of natural objects and artifacts.

Question 13

Within _______ years, Google Earth included imagery from space, historical views, terrain, and undersea topography.

Question 14

Elkins states that the multi-volume _______ is the epitome of the Enlightenment administration of knowledge.

Question 15

The seventeen-volume _______ is a modern example of imagery's capacity to avoid systematic administration.

Question 16

Google's _______ function was developed to find pictures by using algorithms and visual cues from similar pictures.

Question 17

In 1927, Aby Warburg began a project called _______ which was an image atlas with no texts or captions.

Question 18

Wunderkammern are considered to be the predecessor of modern _______ .

Question 19

_______is the worship of images.

Question 20

_______ is the destruction of images to prevent their worship.

Question 21

In 2012, the jihadi group Ansar al Dine set fire to a library and destroyed several of the _______.

Question 22

Within Islam there has been a long history of representations of Muhammad, though he is usually _______.

Question 23

People who like images, including scholars who study them, are sometimes referred to as _______.

Question 24

Surveillance has entirely changed in the half-century since it was first defined for the humanities by _______.

Question 25

Coined by Steve Mann, _______ is the observation of one person by another with no differences in power between the two individuals.

Question 26

The cybernetics specialist Tim Maly and Emily Horne have discussed their idea of _______ which are similar in structure to the panopticon.

Question 27

Devices that provide information about geographic location are often referred to as _______.

Question 28

Give an example of a failed attempt at the administration of images.

Question 29

How were the Illustrated Technical Dictionaries different from any other encyclopedic project that came before?

Question 30

What are some of the shortcomings of Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne project?

Question 31

What did Foucault mean by his term discipline mechanism?

Question 32

Describe Dobson and Fisher's category of Panopticism III.

Question 33

What are some possible reasons for censoring images from the tools of neogeography?

Question 34

What is the difference between iconoclasm and aniconism?

Question 35

In what ways are Wunderkammern and today's museums similar? In what ways are they not similar at all?

Question 36

How do encyclopedic projects aim to control images? Is this an impossible goal to strive for?

Question 37

In what ways are religious iconoclasts ineffective at fulfilling their ambitions?

Question 38

How does Google's "search by image" function differ from all other ways of assembling encyclopedic volumes of images? What are some of the benefits and disadvantages of using this tool for research?

Question 39

Discuss some of the ways that we willingly participate in forms of surveillance when engaging in modern society.

Question 40

In what ways do you think that modern technology would have altered the way that Michael Foucault viewed surveillance in society?

Question 41

Modernist artists have often been called either iconoclasts or iconophiles. Discuss how each of these may be true, and how they may not be mutually exclusive.