1.WJT Mitchell, Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology
2.Gerhard Richter, Thought-Images: Frankfurt School Writers’ Reflections from Damaged Life
3.Karl Marx, “The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof”
Walter Benjamin, “Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century”
Walter Benjamin, “Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century”
4.Walter Benjamin, “Convolute N: On the Theory of Knowledge, Theory of Progress”
Max Pensky, “Method and Time: Benjamin’s Dialectical Images”
5.Martin Heidegger, “The Age of the World Picture”
6.Maurice Merleau-Ponty, “Eye and Mind”
7.Jacques Lacan, “What is a Picture?”
8.Jean-Luc Nancy, The Ground of the Image
9.Hans Belting, An Anthropology of Images: Picture, Medium, Body
10.Georges Didi-Huberman, Confronting Images
11.Jonathan Crary, Suspensions of Perception
12.Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
13.Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
14.Jacques Ranciere, The Future of the Image
15.Vilhem Flusser, Into the Universe of Technical Images
Questions on topics related to the discussion in class will be made available on the UTOL bulletin board to provide additional exchange and Q&A among participants, equivalent to 15 minutes of class time, at the conclusion of every class.