immanence

Here’s a preview in section headings of the book I’m currently writing. It presents a way of thinking about images, what they’ve done for people, and how all of that figures into the contemporary world of digital media. It then applies that way of thinking to three sets of images: about humans as the stars of the “AnthropoScene,” about animals at its edges, and about gods and other mysteries at another set of edges. Or something like that.

THE NEW LIVES OF IMAGES: Toward an Ontology of the Image-World

Part 1: THE IMAGE
 What is an Image?
 Process Semiotics
 Caveats and Hesitations
 Image Ecologies and Image Regimes

Part 2: SIX IMAGE REGIMES
 Animate-Image: The Image that Acts and Affects
 Ideal-Image: The Image that Reveals
 Expressive-Image: The Image that Expresses
 World-Picture: The Image that Copies
 Moving-Image: The Image that Moves
 Image-World: The Endless Image that Consumes, Digests, Transforms, and Excretes

Part 3: (POST)HUMAN BECOMINGS IN THE IMAGE-WORLD
 AnthropoScene: The Scene of the Crime
 TherioScene: The Scene at the Inner Edges
 TheoScene: The Scene at the Outer Edges