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Grammatology of Images radically alters how we approach images by asking after imaging as such. How does something a-visible get transformed into an image? The book illuminates fascinating, unexpected correspondences between premodern and contemporary image-practices, between religion and science, and between things that are and are not understood as art.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Note to the English-Language Edition | vii
List of Figures | ix
Introduction: Toward a Grammatology of Images | 1
1 The Trace and the Current Revaluation of Lines | 15
2 Faces: Between Trace and Image, Encoding and Measurement | 43
3 Indexical Images: Trace, Resemblance, and Code | 84
4 Effigi¿s: Double, Representation, and the Supplementary Economy of the Likeness (
Ebenbild) | 101
5 Defamatory Images: Disfiguration in Physiognomy and Caricature's Two Bodies | 118
6 Cult Images: Iconoclastic Controversy, the Desire for Images, and the Dialectic of Secularization | 170
7 Angels: Images of Making-Appearance between Religion, Art, and Science | 202
8 Perspectives of the Grammatology of Images beyond Visual Culture | 264
Notes | 275
Bibliography | 319
Index | 347
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Sigrid Weigel is former director of Zentrum für Literatur-und Kulturforschung in Berlin and has taught at numerous universities in the United States and elsewhere around the world. She has published on literature, philosophy, cultural history, image theory, memory, secularization, genealogy, and the cultural history of sciences across numerous books in German and English, including
Walter Benjamin: Images, the Creaturely, and the Holy (Stanford, 2013).
Zusammenfassung
Grammatology of Images radically alters how we approach images by asking after imaging as such. How does something a-visible get transformed into an image? The book illuminates fascinating, unexpected correspondences between premodern and contemporary image-practices, between religion and science, and between things that are and are not understood as art.
