[Commlist] New book — Proxistant Vision: Motion, Navigation, Scale

*New Open Access publication from MIT Press (Spring 2025):

Proxistant Vision: Motion, Navigation, Scale
by Synne Tollerud Bull and Dragan Miletic
Read free: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15152.001.0001 
<https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15152.001.0001>

What happens when the overview and the close-up collapse into one 
seamless visual form?
What kind of world is revealed when you’re always both inside and above it?

Proxistant Vision tracks a visual logic that now saturates everything 
from drone footage, 3D data visualizations, Google Earth™ flythroughs, 
and cinematic flight paths, to orbital sensing systems and urban 
observation wheels. These are not just media — they are technologies of 
perception that shape how we imagine space, power, and planetary life.

This book explores a 21st-century visual paradigm where distance is 
folded into intimacy, where surveillance mimics empathy, and where the 
Earth is increasingly seen as a scalable, navigable model.

Grounded in media archaeology, critical cartography, artistic research, 
and cinematic analysis, Proxistant Vision engages with:

•             Vertical mediation and aerial imaging
•             The visual logic of environmental computation
•             First-person drone vision and planetary-scale interface design
•             Image regimes in the Anthropocene

Proxistant Vision is available Open Access via MIT Press:
https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15152.001.0001 
<https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15152.001.0001>

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