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"It is time to reevaluate the merits of the inconspicuous life, to search out some antidote to continuous exposure, and to reconsider the value of going unseen, undetected, or overlooked in this new world. Might invisibility be regarded not simply as refuge, but as a condition with its own meaning and power? The impulse to escape notice is not about complacent isolation or senseless conformity, but about maintaining identity, autonomy, and voice. In our networked and image-saturated lives, the notion of disappearing has never been more alluring. Today, we are relentlessly encouraged, even conditioned, to reveal, share, and promote ourselves. The pressure to be public comes not just from our peers, but from vast and pervasive technology companies that want to profit from patterns in our behavior. A lifelong student and observer of the natural world, Busch sets out to explore her own uneasiness with this arrangement, and what she senses is a widespread desire for a less scrutinized way of life--for invisibility. Writing in rich painterly detail about her own life, her family, and some of the world's most exotic and remote places, she savors the pleasures of being unseen. Discovering and dramatizing a wonderful range of ways of disappearing, from virtual reality goggles that trick the wearer into believing her body has disappeared to the way Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway finds a sense of affiliation with the world around her as she ages, Busch deliberates on subjects new and old with equal sensitivity and incisiveness. [This book] is a unique and exhilarating accomplishment, overturning the dangerous modern assumption that somehow fame and visibility equate to success and happiness. Busch presents a field guide to invisibility, reacquainting us with the merits of remaining inconspicuous, and finding genuine alternatives to a life of perpetual exposure. Accessing timeless truths in order to speak to our most urgent contemporary problems, she inspires us to develop a deeper appreciation for personal privacy in a vast and intrusive world."--Dust jacket.

Invisibility --- Social aspects

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A lively exploration of how invisibility has gone from science fiction to fact Is it possible for something or someone to be made invisible? This question, which has intrigued authors of science fiction for over a century, has become a headline-grabbing topic of scientific research. In this book, science writer and optical physicist Gregory J. Gbur traces the science of invisibility from its sci-fi origins in the nineteenth-century writings of authors such as H. G. Wells and Fitz James O’Brien to modern stealth technology, invisibility cloaks, and metamaterials. He explores the history of invisibility and its science and technology connections, including the discovery of the electromagnetic spectrum, the development of the atomic model, and quantum theory. He shows how invisibility has moved from fiction to reality, and he questions the hidden paths that lie ahead for researchers. This is not only the story of invisibility but also the story of humankind’s understanding of the nature of light itself, and of the many fascinating figures whose discoveries advanced this knowledge.

Invisibility. --- Electromagnetic waves. --- Radiation. --- Physics --- Miscellanea. --- SCIENCE / Physics / Optics & Light

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From the perspective of early modernity, the presence of writing is linked to its visibility and legibility. This may be a questionable assumption, and it was especially problematic for writers in the premodern era, for whom concealment and veiling played such an important role. The aim of this book is to critically examine the category of the "restricted presence of writing," from an interdisciplinary and transcultural perspective.

Philology & Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Writing --- History --- Chirography --- Handwriting --- Language and languages --- Ciphers --- Penmanship --- Invisibility. --- writing.

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The contributions to this volume deal with the concept of (in)visibility from the perspectives of linguistics, literary studies and cultural studies in the field of Romania and shed light on historical, social, linguistic and literary aspects. (In)visibility is to be understood as a gradual and potentially dynamic phenomenon that can be subject to developments and external influences and thus opens up a broad spectrum for different approaches and analyses. The volume thus contributes to structuring the field of research, establishing references to current discussions and at the same time demonstrating the diversity of the concept of (in)visibility.Thematically, the scope ranges from considerations of the visual dimension of space, (in)visibility of processes and developments, literary-medial procedures of (in)visualisation and censorship to the (in)visibility of social groups and linguistic actors as well as of individual identities and collective discourses.

Visibility. --- Popular culture --- Culture --- Study and teaching. --- Cultural studies --- Optics --- Visual discrimination --- Weather --- invisibility; visibility; censorship; identity; space

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Réflexions les objets paradoxaux, sur la faculté à voir l'invisible, et à créer à partir de rien.

Philosophical anthropology --- Appearance (Philosophy) --- Thought and thinking --- Invisibility --- Apparence (Philosophie) --- Pensée --- Invisibilité --- Philosophy --- Philosophie --- Illusion (Philosophy) --- Reality --- Illusion in literature --- Pensée --- Invisibilité --- Pensée. --- Apparence (philosophie)