For a recent review in the substack Embodied Meanings, Donald Brackett discusses At the Threshold of the Image: From Narcissus to Virtual Reality by Andrea Pinotti. Click here to learn more about the book. Click here to read the review. An excerpt appears below:

“Breathtakingly insightful… . One of the many pleasures of this book is the manner in which the author examines the consequences of the primal desire of human beings to enter an image, not just to observe or even be absorbed by its potential beauty or powers but to actually erase the boundary between ourselves and the image we so admire that we want to occupy it totally, to live in it.”