Content

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Content V
3. The Dynamis of the Image (and the Genesis of a Book) 1
4. Potentialities
5. On the ‘Virtus’ of Images. Medieval Practices, Contemporary Theories 15
6. Ta’angá verá. The Power of Images in an Amerindian Perspective 37
7. The Migration of Images. An Encounter with Figuration in Islamic Art 63
8. Wanderstrassen. Traveling Images – Moving Ideas Between Continents 79
9. Method, Madness, and Montage 103
10. On Screen 123
11. Images at War, Images of Wars
12. Torrents and Barricades 141
13. ‘Just Terror’. The Visual Communication of ISIS 159
14. Visual Empire 2.0 175
15. The Dynamis of Fiction in the Globalized World. On Walid Raad’s Images in Transfer 201
16. Visualizing Autoimmunity. Gerhard Richter’s War Cut 235
17. Decentering Visual Studies
18. Image Degree Zero. From the Empirical Image to Image as Capacity 263
19. Images as Active Powers for Reality. A Simondonian Approach to Medical Imaging 287
20. From Speculative to Heretical Orientalism. The Paul Klee Syndrome in the Hamed Abdalla Archives 311
21. The Transformative Museum. Why We Need an Other Museum for the Arts of Islam 329
22. Authors 353
23. Picture Credits 359
24. Plates 363