Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Editors’ Foreword ix
5. Part I. The Traces of the Visible
6. The Spatial Arts: An Interview by Peter Brunette and David Wills 3
7. Thinking Out of Sight 31
8. Trace and Archive, Image and Art 49
9. Part II. Rhetoric of the Line: Painting, Drawing
10. To Illustrate, He Said 89
11. The Philosopher’s Design: An Interview 94
12. Drawing by Design 98
13. Pregnances 118
14. To Save the Phenomena: For Salvatore Puglia 129
15. Four Ways to Drawing 142
16. Ecstasy, Crisis: An Interview with Valerio Adami and Roger Lesgards 145
17. Color to the Letter 156
18. The “Undersides” of Painting, Writing, and Drawing: Support, Substance, Subject, Suppost, and Supplice 175
19. Part III. Spectralities of the Image: Photography, Video, Cinema, and Theater
20. Aletheia 189
21. Videor 201
22. The Ghost Dance: An Interview by Mark Lewis and Andrew Payne 208
23. Cinema and Its Ghosts: An Interview by Antoine de Baecque and Thierry Jousse 214
24. The Sacrifi ce 230
25. Marx Is (Quite) Somebody 240
26. The Survivor, the Surcease, the Surge 252
27. Notes 257
28. Bibliography on the Arts and Architecture 279
29. Filmography 293
30. Notes on Editors and Translators 297
31. Index 301