Zeigam Azizov

The Time of the Image (eBook, PDF)

A Philosophical Exploration of the Image in the Work of Bernard Stiegler

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Produktbeschreibung

The Time of the Image is a philosophical exploration of the notion of ›the image‹ and the relationship between the time and image. It includes the understanding of the image as a temporal object, the place of the thought combined with the mimetic faculty the result of which is the translation of fuzzy aggregates that gives rise to imitations as both artistic and political force of resistance and as a new image of thought. This thesis is a philosophical exploration of the image as technics of access to the world in the age of the proliferation. It poses the question of the understanding of the role of the image in the constitution of the subject. How does the proliferation of the image constitute the subject? The question emerges in the situation of the endless proliferation of images that poses this necessity of the distinction between images used in art and images circulated in the culture industry. The line of the argument emerges from the condition of the image being connected to time: they are temporal objects. The crucial relationship between the image and time provides the possibility for the constitution of the subject. This relationship is recorded in images as the ›recorded memory‹. Images are remnants of time and any constitution is the imitation of what is left out as ›a missing dimension of time‹. As a blend of philosophy, cultural theory, and contemporary art this book is based on the reading of Bernard Stiegler's notion that ›technics precedes thought‹, the human is the product of technics, which leaves the formation (trans-individuation) as an open process. It also involves the re-reading of Husserl's understanding of memory, the question of ›derushage‹ (the first assembly in the process of montage) and the new mimesis. Case studies of Harun Farocki's project entitled Workers Leaving the Factory and Chris Marker's film La Jetée are included to sustain the argument that in the hyper-real world of globalisation imitation became the main force of ›acting out‹.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Herbert von Halem Verlag
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783869625171
• Artikelnr.: 59206226

Autorenporträt

Zeigam Azizov is a British philosopher, artist, and essayist. He was born in 1963 in the former USSR (Azerbaijan SSR) and currently lives and works in London (UK). He was trained in philosophy, art, and cultural theory in the UK, France, and Austria. He started his DPhil (Doctor of Philosophy) at Goldsmiths University of London and later moved to Klagenfurt University in Austria for reasons of supervising. There he completed his thesis The Time of the Image. A Philosophical Exploration of the Image in the Work of Bernard Stiegler with Professor Rainer Winter.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 111.1 Themes and Ideas of this Book 111.2 Outline of the Project 182. T owards a New Theory of the Image 212.1 The Work of Bernard Stiegler 212.2 Grammatisation and the Construction of Knowledge 242.3 Cinematic Images and the Recorded Memory 262.4 Proliferation of Images and Exteriority 282.4.1 The condition of the image 282.4.2 The proliferation of images and the disorientation of coordinates 342.4.3 Images as index of memory 382.4.4 New vectors of meaning 392.4.5 Liberation of memory and exteriorisation of knowledge 482.5 Images and New Subjects 552.5.1 Temporal objects 552.5.2 Narrative, temporality and hypertransformation of the image 682.5.3 Images and association: derushage and editing as a decomposition of memory 742.5.4 The image and the constitution of the subject 812.5.5 Perception as 'seeing as' 862.5.6 Memory as the condition of temporal existence 872.5.7 The rediscovery of missing subjects 902.5.8 Memory and the constitution of the subject 933. Images and the Critique of the New Political Economy of Contribution 1003.1 A New Economy and the Post-Industrial Proliferation 1003.2 'Out of the Golden Ghetto' 1053.3 Technics as a Remedy 1093.4 In Between the Contingent and the Dialectical 1133.5 Subjectivity and the Point of View: Citation as an Association 1183.6 What is Subjectivity? 1193.7 Citation, Expression, Images 1233.8 A New Mechanism and Grammatisation 1273.9 The Case of Harun Farocki 1294. Images as Technics 1374.1 The Spatialisation and the Grammatisation of the Visible 1374.2 The Place as a Necessary Condition of Being: the Image as the Condensed Fragmentation of the 'Time-Space' 1444.3 Extension of the Invention by Images: the Regressive Inquiry (Rückfragen) 1504.4 The Activity of Correcting as the Rediscovery of What is Missing 1564.5 Three Phases of Production: Appropriation, Distribution, Proliferation 1614.6 Four Steps Towards the Constitution of the Subject 1664.7 Repetition and Return to a Primal Impulse 1674.8 Time as a Temporal Cut 1684.9 Contingency and Connection 1694.10 The Age of Imitation: Mimesis Now 1734.11 The Media Show 1744.12 From Image to Imitation: Imitation as the Industrial Model Based on the Perceptual Exchange 1774.13 The Case of Chris Marker 1815. Conclusion 193Bibliography 203