1st Edition

The Pictorial Turn

Edited By Neal Curtis Copyright 2010
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

In 1992 W. J. T. Mitchell argued for a "pictorial turn" in the humanities, registering a renewed interest in and prevalence of pictures and images in what had been understood as an age of simulation, or an increasingly extensive and diverse visual culture. However, in what is often characterized as a society of the "spectacle" we still do not know exactly what pictures or images are, what their... Read more

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).