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Releasing the Image Releasing the Image from literature to new media edited by Jacques Khalip and Robert Mitchell stanford university press stanford, california Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2011 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. This book has been published with the assistance of the Faculty Development Fund and the Office of the Vice President for Research at Brown University. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, elec- tronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Releasing the image : from literature to new media / edited by Jacques Khalip and Robert Mitchell. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8047-6137-6 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8047-6138-3 (pbk : alk. paper) 1. Image (Philosophy) 2. Phenomenology. 3. Philosophy, Modern. I. Khalip, Jacques, 1975– editor of compilation. II. Mitchell, Robert (Robert Edward), 1969– editor of compilation. B105.I47R45 2011 121’.68—dc22 2010050536 Contents Acknowledgments vii Contributors ix Introduction: Release—(Non-)Origination—Concepts robert mitchell and jacques khalip 1 part one origination and auto-origination of the image 1. “Self-Generated” Images 27 peter geimer 2. Cézanne’s Certitude 44 jean-luc marion 3. Nymphs 60 giorgio agamben part two the new media of images (video, sound, digital) 4. From Fixed to Fluid: Material-Mental Images Between Neural Synchronization and Computational Mediation mark b. n. hansen 83 5. When the Ear Dreams: Dolby Digital and the Imagination of Sound vivian sobchack 112 6. Imaging Sound in New Media Art: Asia Acoustics, Distributed timothy murray 137 7. Three Theses on the Life-Image (Deleuze, Cinema, Bio-politics) cesare casarino 156 vi contents part three past and future itineraries of the image-concept 8. On Producing the Concept of the Image-Concept kenneth surin 171 9. The Romantic Image of the Intentional Structure forest pyle 181 10. Ur-ability: Force and Image from Kant to Benjamin kevin mclaughlin 204 11. The Tongue of the Eye: What “Art History” Means bernard stiegler 222 Notes 237 Index 281 Acknowledgments The strength of an edited volume depends largely upon the sum of its parts, so we take pleasure in thanking our authors for their contributions, as well as for their patience and sustained interest in our project. In addition, warm thanks to our superb editor at Stanford, Emily-Jane Cohen, for welcoming the book and steering it along many critical straits, and to Sarah Crane New- man, Tim Roberts, and Cynthia Lindlof for handling our numerous edito- rial, production, and copyediting concerns. Several people provided great help and intervened at important times: David L. Clark, Kevin McLaugh- lin, Amanda Minervini, Suzanne Nacar, Inga Pollmann, Michael Powers, Thangam Ravindranathan, Deb Reisinger, Jenny Rhee, Jimmy Richardson, and Pierre Saint-Amand. Finally, we would like to recognize the Office of the Dean of the Faculty and the Office of the Vice-President for Research at Brown University for their generous material assistance. Contributors giorgio agamben, an Italian philosopher and radical political theorist, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Venice. Stanford University Press has published eight of his previous books: Homo Sacer (1998), Potenti- alities (1999), The Man Without Content (1999), The End of the Poem (1999), The Open (2004), The Time That Remains (2005), “What Is an Apparatus?” and Other Essays (2009), and Nudities (2010). cesare casarino is Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Litera- ture at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Modernity at Sea: Melville, Marx, Conrad in Crisis (2002), co-author (with Antonio Negri) of In Praise of the Common: A Conversation on Philosophy and Politics (2008), and co-editor (with Saree Makdisi and Rebecca Karl) of Marxism Beyond Marxism (1996), as well as author of numerous essays on literature, cinema, and philosophy. peter geimer is Professor of Art History at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. His recent publications include Theorien der Fotografie (2009) and Bilder aus Versehen. Eine Geschichte fotografischer Erscheinungen (2010). mark b. n. hansen is Professor in the Literature Program at Duke Uni- versity. He is author of Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing (2000), New Philosophy for New Media (2004), and Bodies in Code (2006), as well as numerous essays on cultural theory, contemporary literature, and media. He has co-edited three volumes: The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty (with Taylor Carman, 2004), Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays on Second Order Systems Theory (with Bruce Clarke, 2009), and Critical Terms for Media Studies (with W. J. T. Mitchell, 2010). He is cur- rently writing a study of the technicity of time-consciousness that explores
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