Images

Part One: Historical and Philosophical Precedents/Genesis to Locke/ Man Created in God's Image/Graven Images/Abraham and the Idol Shop of his Father Terah/The Simile of the Cave/Art and Illusion/The Origins of Imitation/Thinking with Images/Iconodules and Iconoclasts in Byzantium/John of Damascus/Horos at Nicaea 787 A.D./Horos at Niera 754 A.D./Image and Idolatry/Evil Demon/Images and the Brain/Of Ideas/Kant to Freud/Representation and Imagination/Space and Time/Camera Obscura/The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof/How the Real World at Last Became a Myth/On Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense/Images Bodies and Consciousness /The Dream-Work/Part Two: Theories of Images /Ideology Critique/Television: Multilayered Structure/Society of the Spectacle/The Precession of Simulacra /Image as Commodity/'Race' and Nation/Never Just Pictures/Art History/Studies in Iconology/Invention and Discovery/Interpretation without Representation or The Viewing of Las Meninas/Towards a Visual Critical Theory/Semiotics/Nature of the Linguistic Sign/The Sign: Icon Index and Symbol/The Third Meaning/From Sub- to Suprasemiotic: The Sign as Event/The Semiotic Landscape/Phenomenology/Thing and Work/Eye and Mind/Description/Imagination/Scientific Visualism/Psychoanalysis/The Gaze / Anamorphosis/The All-Perceiving Subject/Woman as Image (Man as Bearer of the Look)/Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills/Two Kinds of Attention/Part Three: Image Culture/Images and Words/The Roots of Poetry/Icon and Image/This is Not a Pipe/The Despotic Eye and its Shadow: Media Image in the Age of Literacy /Images Audiences and Readings /Image as Thought/Pictures and Facts/Body Images/Involuntary Memory/The Philosophical Imaginary/Thought and Cinema: The Time-Image/The Dialectical Image/Ways of Remembering/Fabrication/Taking a Line for a Walk/On Montage and the Filmic Fourth Dimension/Electronic Tools/Camera Lucida/Images Scatter into Data Data Gather into Images/Visual Culture/The Medium is the Message/The Image of the City/The Image-World/The Philosopher as Andy Warhol/Symbol Idol and Murti: Hindu God-images and the Politics of Mediation/The United Colors of Diversity/The Unbearable Lightness Of Sight/Vision and Visuality/Modernising Vision/The Im/Pulse to See/Lighting for Whiteness/Cultural Relativism and the Visual Turn/The Modularity of Vision/Image Studies/The Family of Images/The Domain of Images/A Constructivist Manifesto/Images Not Signs/What is Iconoclash? Or is there a World Beyond the Image Wars?