1. “As if”: Situating the Pictorial Turn Neal Curtis 2. Pictorial versus Iconic Turn: Two Letters Gottfried Boehm and W. J. T. Mitchell 3. Do Pictures Really Want to Live? Jacques Rancière 4. The Future of the Image: Rancière’s Road Not Taken W. J. T. Mitchell 5. Obama and the Image Susan Buck-Morss 6. Magical Nominalism: Photography and the Re-enchantment of the World Martin Jay 7. Images, Totems, Types and Memes: Perspectives on an Iconological Mimetics Norman MacLeod 8. The Pictorial Uncanny Lydia H. Liu 9. Looking at Saying in W. J. T. Mitchell Robert Morris 10. Responses to Tom Mitchell’s Enquiry into the Life of Images Antony Gormley 11. What Do Drawings Want? Michael Taussig 12. What Does Landscape Want? A Walk in W. J. T. Mitchell’s Holy Landscape Larry Abramson 13. The Sea and the Land: Biopower and Visuality from Slavery to Katrina Nicholas Mirzoeff 14. The Trip to Jerusalem Stephen Daniels 15. Politics: An Interview with W. J. T. Mitchell Marquard Smith
Biography
At the time of writing this book, Neal Curtis was Director of the Centre for Critical Theory, and Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is now Senior Lecturer in the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of Against Autonomy: Lyotard, Judgement and Action (2001) and War and Social Theory: World, Value and Identity (2006).
