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Monographs, handbooks, and theoretical editions published in collaboration with international academic publishers.

Theorizing Images

Theorizing Images

This book uncovers an underlying dispute over the role images play in contemporary society and, consequently, over their values and purposes. Two decades after the concepts of the pictorial and the iconic turn changed our vernacular involvement with regard to images, it has become clear that it was not only a newly discovered social, political or sexual construction of the visual field that brought turbulence into disciplinary knowledge, but that images have their own “pictorial logic” with powers exceeding those that are purely iconic or visually discernible.

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Neoliberalism, Oligarchy and Politics of the Event: At the Edge of Chaos

Neoliberalism, Oligarchy and Politics of the Event: At the Edge of Chaos

Based on insight into Foucault’s lectures on biopolitics, which consider the notion of neoliberalism for all future relationships between individuals and society, and the state and the economy, this book shows that the oligarchic model of politics and culture management today is a result of the rise and fall of mass political movements.

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White Holes and the Visualization of the Body

White Holes and the Visualization of the Body

This book builds on the works of Artaud and Deleuze, setting forth a different way of thinking on the body through the use of a whole new set of conceptual tools. Paić argues that the human body has become obsolete in relation to the development of cybernetics and artificial intelligence, proposing that it can be understood neither as a bare thing nor a machine, but instead as an event.

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Aesthetics and the Iconoclasm of Contemporary Art

Aesthetics and the Iconoclasm of Contemporary Art

The main themes and aims of this book are understanding aesthetics, contemporary art and the end of the avant-garde not from the traditional viewpoint of the metaphysics of the beautiful and the sublime but rather thru close connection to the techno-genesis of virtual worlds.

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The Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies

The Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies

This handbook brings together the most current and hotly debated topics in studies about images today. In the first part, the book gives readers an historical overview and basic diacronical explanation of the term image, including the ways it has been used in different periods throughout history.

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W.J.T. Mitchell's Image Theory - Living Pictures

W.J.T. Mitchell's Image Theory - Living Pictures

W.J.T. Mitchell – one of the founders of visual studies – has been at the forefront of many disciplines such as iconology, art history and media studies. His concept of the pictorial turn is known worldwide for having set new philosophical paradigms in dealing with our vernacular visual world.

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The Iconology of Abstraction: Non-figurative Images and the Modern World

The Iconology of Abstraction: Non-figurative Images and the Modern World

This book uncovers how we make meaning of abstraction, both historically and in present times, and examines abstract images as a visual language. The contributors demonstrate that abstraction is not primarily an artistic phenomenon, but rather arises from human beings’ desire to imagine, understand and communicate complex concepts.

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The Technosphere as a New Aesthetic

The Technosphere as a New Aesthetic

This edited collection, dedicated to the issue of Homo Kybernetes, sheds light on the genesis and development of opinions about the technosphere as an aesthetic problem par excellence from different points of view.

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Art and the Technosphere: The Platforms of Strings

Art and the Technosphere: The Platforms of Strings

In the analysis of the relationship between aesthetics and contemporary art, this book investigates hermeneutics, phenomenology and semiotics when it comes to the notion of the image and its new status concerning avant-garde art.

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Fashion Theory and the Visual Semiotics of the Body

Fashion Theory and the Visual Semiotics of the Body

Instead of the logic of representation of fashion in the light of modern society and postmodern culture, this book argues that contemporary fashion should be regarded as a performative-conceptual turn in the very core of body iconograms.

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