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Books in the Anthem symploke Studies in Theory series

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  • - Scholars Discuss Intellectual Origins and Turning Points
    by H. Aram Veeser
    £27.99

  • - An Issue of Reconfiguration and Re-representation
    by W. Lawrence Hogue
    £93.49

  • - Negative Moralism and Hermeneutic Suspicion
    by Jeremiah Bowen
    £93.49

  • - Reading in Sociography
    by John Mowitt
    £30.99 - 93.49

  • by Terry Smith
    £93.49

    Iconomy: Towards a Political Economy of Images argues that imagery of all kinds has become a definitive force in the shaping of contemporary life. While immersed in public politics and private imaginaries, such imagery also operates according to its own logic, potentialities, and limitations. It questions whether an image economy, an iconomy, in these two senses can be identified. From Plato, through medieval iconoclasm, Marx, Benjamin, and Debord to recent critical theory, the question becomes more urgent. This book explores viral imagery-the iconopolitics-of the pandemic, U.S. Presidents Trump and Biden, Black Lives Matter, as well as the rise of a "e;black aesthetic"e; in white artworlds. Having arrived at the term "e;iconomy"e; in the years just prior to 9/11, and tracking its growing relevance since then, Smith argues that its study does not require a discipline serving nation state and globalizing capitalism but, instead, a deconstructive interdiscipline that contributes to the politics of planetary world-making.

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