What images do /

When images look like something they do so because they are different from what they resemble. This difference is not sufficiently captured by the traditional theories of representation and mimesis, and yet it is the condition for any such theory. Various contemporary image theorists have pointed ou...

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Other Authors: Bäcklund, Jan, 1966- (Editor), Oxvig, Henrik (Editor), Renner, Michael (Editor), Søberg, Martin (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Part I: Acting
  • Part II: Emerging
  • Part III: Symptomizing
  • Contributors, Image Credits, Index
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Acting
  • Divided Attention: Remarks on »Iconic Difference« (Gottfried Boehm)
  • Doing and Not Doing: The Paradoxes of the Image (Jacques Rancière)
  • Iridescence of Perception: A-Signification Through Preemptive Desecration of the Visual Urzustand (Marc Boumeester)
  • Drawing Distinctions between Aleatorics: »Images Made by Chance« in Modern Thought (Toni Hildebrandt)
  • Word and Image: In Search of Unseen Images(Michael Renner)
  • Part II: Emerging
  • The Worldly Eye (Jonathan Hay)
  • 3D Perception ≠ 2D Image +1D Inference: Or Why a Single Precise Shot Would Often Miss the Target, whereas a Series of Imprecise Shots Will Eventually Lead to a Hit (Andrej Radman)
  • Some Thoughts on the Generative and Instrumental Operativity of Technical Images (Sabine Ammon)
  • Building Architecture with Images, Not Vice Versa (Henrik Oxvig)
  • Iconic Stabilizing: Roy Lichtenstein's Entablatures (Martin Søberg)
  • Part III: Symptomizing
  • To Make Symptoms or to Make Syntheses? (Georges Didi-Huberman)
  • Mannerism and Hysteria: On the Mode of Existence of Painting (Sjoerd van Tuinen)
  • Notes on Painting (Charlotte Warsen)
  • The Invisible Image and the Index of an Imaginary Order (Jan Bäcklund)
  • The Birth of the Skeleton: Facing the Truth (Ludger Schwarte)
  • Contributors
  • Image Credits
  • Index Keywords
  • Index Names
  • Colophon