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Images, Reality, and Digital Culture: Towards a Post-Pictorial Condition book cover

1st Edition

Images, Reality, and Digital Culture Towards a Post-Pictorial Condition

Edited By Krešimir Purgar Copyright 2026
214 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Focusing on the moment of transition from the pictorial to the post-pictorial condition, this book advocates the opinion that what fundamentally distinguishes pictorial representation in Western civilization is one’s ability to distinguish what the picture shows from what the picture refers to, and to that extent the reality inside the picture cannot be confused with what is outside it. The... Read more

List of Contributors

 

List of Figures

 

Introduction: What is the Post-Pictorial Condition?

Krešimir Purgar

 

PART I

THE STATE OF THE IMAGE IN DIGITAL CULTURE

 

1     Resurgence or Twilight of Images? Differential Operations and the Regime of Transparency

       Francesco Striano                   

 

2     Welcome to the Desert of the Code. Empty Images and “Digital Seeing”

       Sven Grampp

 

3     We are All in the Picture. Opacity and Hyper-Transparency in Contemporary Visual Flow

       Elio Ugenti

 

4     The Visual Politics of Populism. Synthetic Images and Imagined Communities

       Marcel Lemmes

 

PART II

THE STATE OF REPRESENTATION IN A DIGITAL IMAGE

 

5     Black Hole Picture. Theory after the End of the Image

       Bryan Norton

 

6     Atmosphere, Affection, Visual Cognition. Images and Emotions in Blade Runner 2049

       Andrea Rabbito

 

7     Unreal Architecture, Impossible Places. The Spatially Embodied Perception of Non-euclidean Geometries in Video Games

       Magdalini Grigoriadou, Giorgos Loukakis and Themistoklis Lekkas

 

PART III

THE STATE OF REALITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE

 

8     Images and Derealization. An Exploration into the Twilight of the “Real”

       Andrea Osti

 

9     From Cyberspace to Virtual Space. A Media-Phenomenological Aspects of Immersive Digital Environments     

       Fabrizia Bandi

 

10   Recycling Reality. Visualization and Virtuality After the Image

       Dario Vuger

 

11   Reality of the Image, Image of Reality. The Aesthetics of Post-pictorial Art  

Krešimir Purgar

Biography

Krešimir Purgar is a Professor in the Academy of Arts and Culture at J. J. Strossmayer University, Osijek, Croatia.

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