Languages of Visuality: Crossings Between Science, Art, Politics, and Literature

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Beate Allert
Wayne State University Press, 1996 - Literary Collections - 270 pages
Addressing the textualisation of images and visualisation of texts, this work explores the borders of the visual and languages of visuality. Aesthetic, scientific and political implications of the discourse of clarity in various scope regimes, as reflected in modern culture, are documented.

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Introduction
1
SCIENCE AND MEDIA TECHNOLOGY
47
MONADS EYEBALLS
87
On a Metaphor in Novalis and Its Conceptual Context
111
THE EMPTY CENTER GAPS
153
CONTROL AND TRANSGRESSIONS
185
CLOSER DEFINITIONS
227
Writing and the Nature of the Supernatural Image or Why Ghosts Float
242
Index
263
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