"Readings for Now" Seminar #11: IMAGES AND OTHER ACTS

Readings

Gaston Bachelard, “The Dialectic of Imaginary Energies: The Resistant World,” Earth and Reveries of Will, 13-26
Henri Lefebvre, “Image,” Critique of Everyday Life: Foundations for a Sociology of the Everyday, 287-290
Susan Sontag, “The Image-World,” On Photography, 153-182
Giorgio Agamben, “The Face,” Means without End: Notes on Politics, 92-99
Georg Simmel, “Aspatial Gaze,” Rembrandt: An Essay in the Philosophy of Art, 98-100
David Summers, Selections from Real Spaces: World Art History and the Rise of Western Modernism: 1. “The Origins of Images," 251-252, 4.2 “Realities of Images," 252-254, and 4.3 “Images and Cultural Difference," 254-255
Hans Belting, Selections from Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image before the Era of Art: “The Images’ Loss of Power and Their New Role as Art,” 14-16, and “Why Images: Imagery and Religion in Late Antiquity,” 30-46
Vilém Flusser, Selections from Writings: “Line and Surface,” 21-34; “The Codified World,” 35-40; “Orders of Magnitude and Humanism,” 160-164
Vilém Flusser, “Why a Philosophy of Photography Is Necessary,” Towards a Philosophy of Photography, 76-82, and Lexicon of Basic Concepts, 83-85
Hito Steyerl, “Ripping Reality: Blind Spots and Wrecked Data in 3D,” Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War, 190-205