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    This document is the table of contents for the book "Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics" by W.J.T. Mitchell. The book is divided into two parts: Figures and Grounds. Part One focuses on concepts related to images like iconology, media, visual culture, realism, globalization and more. Part Two examines topics such as media aesthetics, architecture and sculpture in the digital age, politics and media, art and environment, and the spectacle today. The book explores the relationship between images, visual communication, and mass media through interdisciplinary lenses.

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    This document is the table of contents for the book "Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics" by W.J.T. Mitchell. The book is divided into two parts: Figures and Grounds. Part One focuses on concepts related to images like iconology, media, visual culture, realism, globalization and more. Part Two examines topics such as media aesthetics, architecture and sculpture in the digital age, politics and media, art and environment, and the spectacle today. The book explores the relationship between images, visual communication, and mass media through interdisciplinary lenses.

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    IMAGE

    ICONOLOGY,
    VISUAL CULTURE, AND
    MEDIA AESTHETICS

    w.j T. Mitchell SCIENCE

    The University of Chicago Press


    Chicago and London
    The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
    The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
    © 2015 by The University of Chicago
    All rights reserved. Published 2015.
    Paperback edition 2018
    Printed in the United States of America

    27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 2 3 4 5 6

    ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23133-4 (cloth)


    ISBN-13: 978-0-226-56584-2 (paper)
    ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23150-1 (e-book)
    DOl: https:/Idoi.org/l0.7208/chicago/9780226231501.001.000l

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Mitchell, W.J. T. (William John Thomas), 1942-


    author.
    Image science: iconology, visual culture, and
    media aesthetics / W. J. T. Mitchell.
    pages cm
    Includes index.
    ISBN 978-0-226-23133-4 (cloth: alkaline paper)
    ISBN 978-0-226-23150-1 (ebook)
    1. Image (Philosophy). 2. Pictures-
    Philosophy. 3. Visual communication-
    Philosophy. 4. Mass media-Philosophy. 1. Title.
    B105.I47M58 2015
    701'.8-dc23 2015010449

    e This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO


    Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper).
    CONTENTS

    List ofIllustrations ix
    Preface: Figures and Grounds xi
    Acknowledgments xiii

    PART ONE: FIGURES

    1 Art History on the Edge: Iconology, Media, and Visual Culture 3


    2 Four Fundamental Concepts of Image Science 13
    3 Image Science 23
    4 Image X Text 39
    5 Realism and the Digital Image 49
    6 Migrating Images: Totemism, Fetishism, Idolatry 65
    7 The Future of the Image: Ranciere's Road Not Taken 79
    8 World Pictures: Globalization and Visual Culture 93

    PART TWO: GROUNDS

    9 Media Aesthetics 111


    10 There Are No Visual Media 125
    11 Back to the Drawing Board: Architecture, Sculpture, and the Digital
    Image 137
    12 Foundational Sites and Occupied Spaces 153
    13 Border Wars: Translation and Convergence in Politics and Media 167
    14 Art X Environment 181
    15 The Historical Uncanny: Phantoms, Doubles, and Repetition in the
    War on Terror 195
    16 The Spectacle Today: A Response to Retort 207

    Coda: For a Sweet Science of Images 219

    Index 227

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