Dynamis of the Image : : Moving Images in a Global World / / ed. by Emmanuel Alloa, Chiara Cappelletto.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Art and Architecture eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Alloa, Emmanuel,; Bartholeyns, Gil,; Belting, Hans,; Buck-Morss, Susan,; Báez-Rubí, Linda,; Cappelletto, Chiara,; Didi-Huberman, Georges,; Escobar, Ticio,; Hoel, A. S. Aurora,; Manghani, Sunil,; Mengoni, Angela,; Michaud, Philippe-Alain,; Mitchell, W. J. T.,; Montazami, Morad,; Shalem, Avinoam,
• HerausgeberIn: Alloa, Emmanuel,; Cappelletto, Chiara,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Contact Zones : Studies in Global Art , 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (388 p.)

Images are not neutral conveyors of messages shipped around the globe to achieve globalized spectatorship. They are powerful forces that elicit very diverse responses and can resist new visual hegemonies of our global world. Bringing together case studies from the field of media, art, politics, religion, anthropology and science, this volume breaks new ground by reflecting on the very power of images beyond their medial exploitation. The contributions by Hans Belting, Susan Buck-Morss, Georges Didi-Huberman, W.J.T. Mitchell, and Ticio Escobar among others testify that globalization does not necessarily equal homogenization, and that images can open up alternative ways of picturing what is to come.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Content -- The Dynamis of the Image (and the Genesis of a Book) -- Potentialities -- On the ‘Virtus’ of Images. Medieval Practices, Contemporary Theories -- Ta’angá verá. The Power of Images in an Amerindian Perspective -- The Migration of Images. An Encounter with Figuration in Islamic Art -- Wanderstrassen. Traveling Images – Moving Ideas Between Continents -- Method, Madness, and Montage -- On Screen -- Images at War, Images of Wars -- Torrents and Barricades -- ‘Just Terror’. The Visual Communication of ISIS -- Visual Empire 2.0 -- The Dynamis of Fiction in the Globalized World. On Walid Raad’s Images in Transfer -- Visualizing Autoimmunity. Gerhard Richter’s War Cut -- Decentering Visual Studies -- Image Degree Zero. From the Empirical Image to Image as Capacity -- Images as Active Powers for Reality. A Simondonian Approach to Medical Imaging -- From Speculative to Heretical Orientalism. The Paul Klee Syndrome in the Hamed Abdalla Archives -- The Transformative Museum. Why We Need an Other Museum for the Arts of Islam -- Authors -- Picture Credits -- Plates