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He is the author of many academic books and novels, including Phenomenology and Media (2010), Vietnamese Diaspora (2014), and Necessity and Other Tales (2014).

Prof will present his work on: “The Loss of Color as an Epistemological Break”.

The “primitive” technology of images in early print books lost the colour of the “advanced” technology of images found in medieval illustrated and illuminated manuscript codices. While this transition is of importance in media studies and aesthetics, it is also significant as a profound epistemological break
that not only changes labour relations, the rapid growth of literacy, and the nature of communication, but, more importantly, shifts social perception from ideological, prescriptive symbolism to empirical, descriptive science. In short, I argue that the rise of science occurs as a consequence of the loss of colour in books during the transition from the late Middle Ages to the Renaissance.

Gaston Bachelard, Louis Althusser, Thomas Kuhn, Sherry Turkle.

Everyone is warmly welcome!