W.J.T. Mitchell's Image Theory: Living Pictures

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Notes
Part I Toward a Critical Iconology
	1 The Changing Patterns of Iconology: Seven Questions to Mitchell from the Twentieth Century
		I
		II
		III
		Notes
	2 What is an Image?: W.J.T. Mitchell’s Picturing Theory
		The Image at the Crossroads between Semiotics and Aesthetics
		Mitchell’s “Pictured Theory” of the Signs and the Senses
		The Aesthetic of Images at the Threshold between Nature and Culture
		Toward an Animism of Images, or How Images Become “Alive”
		Notes
	3 Poststructuralist Iconology: The Genealogical and Historical Concerns of Mitchell’s Image Science
		Setting a Path toward a New Iconology
		Nelson Goodman and the Image/Word Taxonomy
		The Genesis of Mitchell’s Image/Word Theory
		Belting and Mitchell on the Ideology of Art History
		Toward the “iconology of cultural representations”
		Notes
	4 Iconology as Cultural Symptomatology: Dinosaurs, Clones and the Golden Calf in Mitchell’s Image Theory
		The Dinosaur as a Symbolic Animal of the Pictorial Turn
		Dolly the Sheep: From Living Clone to Living Picture
		The Golden Calf as a Metapicture of Image Theory
		Notes
	5 Words and Pictures in the Age of the Image: An Interview with W.J.T. Mitchell
Part II (Post)Disciplinary Context
	6 From Image/Text to Biopictures: Key Concepts in W.J.T. Mitchell’s Image Theory
		The Origins of Visual Culture: Definition and Scope
		The Question of Turns: Texts and Images
		Visual Literacy: Beyond an Ontology of Images
		Prolegomena to an Image Science: Living Pictures
		Notes
	7 The Birth of the Discipline: W.J.T. Mitchell and the Chicago School of Visual Studies
		Visual Studies as a De-discipline of Disavowal
		Toward a Postmodern Nominalism
		Media Hybridity or the Radical Media Critique
		Antifoundationalism, or What Do Images Want?
		A Concluding Assessment: Are All Images Created Equal?
		Notes
	8 What Discipline?: On Mitchell’s “Interdisciplinarity” and German Medienwissenschaft
		Mitchell’s Concept of the “Indiscipline”
		Media Studies in Germany
			On the History of Medienwissenschaft and Its Self-description
			Medienwissenschaft: Internal Structure, Institutionality and Mediality
		Notes
	9 Mitchell and Boehm – a Dialogue: Image Science in the European Context
		Notes
	10 Images and their Incarnations: An Interview with W.J.T. Mitchell
		Notes
Part III Interpretive Readings
	11 What Do Photographs Want?: Mitchell’s Theory of Photography from the Camera Obscura to the Networked Lens
		The Camera Obscura as Metaphor and Medium
		Digital Photography, Realism and Anachronism
		Conclusion: Circulation, Rematerialization and the Networked Lens
		Notes
	12 The Eyes Have Ears: Sound in W.J.T. Mitchell’s Pictures from Paragone to Occupy Wall Street
		Eye and Ear: Intensifying the Effect of an Image
		The Listening Eye: A Dialectical Evolution
		Making the Invisible Visible
		A City of Music: Toward Sonic Images
		Notes
	13 Living Pictures of Democracy: W.J.T. Mitchell’s Iconology as Political Philosophy
		Populism Revisited: An Iconological Account
		The Empty Signifier and the Golden Calf: Two Metapictures
		A Matter of Knowledge: Deconstruction of a Founding Picture
		Populism and Totemism: New Visions
		Notes
	14 Showing Showing: Reading Mitchell’s “Queer” Metapictures
		Notes
	15 After the Pictorial Turn: An Interview with W.J.T. Mitchell
		Notes
Resources
	Books Authored or Edited by W.J.T. Mitchell
	Special Issues of Critical Inquiry Edited by W.J.T. Mitchell
	Other Special Issues of Critical Inquiry
	Essays by W.J.T. Mitchell
List of Contributors
Index