What Images Do
Published on 13. September 2019
310 pages
978-87-7184-829-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 out that Plato already understood that images are not what they look like. Images have their own existence which cannot be identified with a concept, but should be examined in terms of actions. This book comprises fifteen articles that investigate what images do, particularly in relation to the disciplines of architecture, design and visual arts. It claims that it is the differentiating power of images-their actions-which constitutes their capacity to look like something they are not, as well as create something that does not yet exist. What Images Do addresses the crucial role that images might play in producing and investigating what we have not yet seen or understood in and of reality.
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Jan Baecklund | Henrik Oxvig | Michael Renner
What Images Do
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10/2019
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Aarhus University Press
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Content
- 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
