Theorizing images (1st edition.)

This volume uncovers an underlying dispute over the role images play in contemporary society and, consequently, over their values and purposes.

Instead of underscoring previously defined concepts of the picture, the contributors to this book view visual studies and Bildwissenschaft 'merely' as a place for the theory of images, making a case for the hotly-debated topic of their powers and weaknesses on the one hand, and of their respective theories on the other.

Therefore, as the title indicates, this book theorises images, but it does not present a theory of images, because visual studies cannot lead to a unified theory of images unless a unified ontology of images can be agreed upon first.