Grammatologie der Bilder

The book by the renowned literary scholar examines the forms of image exchange between science, religion, art, and literature. Beyond the controversy between the pictorial and linguistic turn, it addresses the knowledge of images at the boundary between measuring and interpreting: at the threshold between trace and sign, imaginary and visible, material and figure, scene and narrative, data and graphic/concept. Moments of manifestation are at the center: of images in thought, of affects in the face, of transcendence in paintings or in poetry. Starting from the difference between neural indicators and semantics in the imaging methods of current scientific research, Sigrid Weigel focuses primarily on the knowledge that painting and imagination hold about images. The aim is to cultivate attention to detail.