New Perspectiva Artificialis

From the Mechanical Eye to the Algorithmic Symbolic Form

AvJames Hutson,Daniel Plate

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

Advancing a comparative thesis, this book aligns Renaissance linear perspective with transformer architectures in generative artificial intelligence as structurally parallel revolutions in symbolic form.Both linear perspective and transformer architectures transform subjective human faculties—embodied seeing in one case and linguistic judgment in the other—into rationalized, computable procedures that reorganize creativity, authorship, and world-making. The argument mobilizes symbolic-form theory from work by Ernst Cassirer and Erwin Panofsky to frame perspective as a world-constituting schema and then extends that conceptual apparatus to attention-based language models understood as engines of geometric semantics. The contribution integrates art history, intellectual history, and science-and-technology studies with empirical findings from mechanistic interpretability, including attention-head roles, circuit analyses, and representation-patching methods that reveal structured internal organization.This book is suitable for scholars of art history, philosophy of technology, digital humanities, and science and technology studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-12-14
Mått:174 x 246 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Research in Art History
Antal sidor:318
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781041384571

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Mer om författaren

James Hutson is Senior Professor of Art History, AI and Visual Culture at Lindenwood University, USA .Daniel Plate is Professor English at Lindenwood University, USA.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: The Two Symbolic Forms; Part I The Mechanical Eye: Optical Regimes, Symbolic Space, and the Western Field of Vision; Chapter 1. Sacred Space and Ritual Vision: Classical Optics, Medieval Image-Orders, and the Prehistory of Perspective; Chapter 2. The Grid of Reason: Alberti, Brunelleschi, Dürer, Cartography, and the Codification of Spatial Procedure; Chapter 3. Perspective as Symbolic Form: Geometry, Territory, Administration, and the Social Density of the Subject; Chapter 4. Countervisions: Romantic Imagination, Physiological Vision, Photography, and the Crisis of Mechanized Truth; Part II. The Algorithmic Voice: Corpora, Semantic Space, and the Operationalization of Meaning; Chapter 6. From Archive to Corpus: Print Culture, Digitization, and Machine-Readable Textuality; Chapter 7. Tokenization, Embeddings, and Attention: The Construction of a Semantic Field; Chapter 8. From Prediction to Interpretation: Generation, Mechanism, and the Conditions of Meaning; Chapter 9. Transformer Symbolic Form: Authorship, Collaboration, Attribution, and Institutional Practice; Conclusion. Beyond the Grid: Global Circulation, Procedural Culture, and the Future of Interpretation