Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Decentered corporeality: metropolitan and regional image zones of play
  • Archaeologies of modernity: toward bildung without a self
  • Corporeal topographies of the image zone: from Oskar Kokoschka's murder of metaphor to Georges Bataille's Acephale
  • Kafka's nomad images: from multilingual borderland to global experience
  • Regional sights and sounds: Jean/Hans Arp's Alsatian hobbyhorse play and Franz Kafka's whistling mice
  • Part II. The I-less eye: primitivist archaeologies and images of modernity
  • Archaeologies of modernity in transition and documents, Paris 1929-30: Eugene Jolas, Carl Einstein, Georges Bataille
  • Seeing African sculpture: Carl Einstein's "ethnographie du blanc"
  • Painting as a language: why not? Carl Einstein in documents
  • Part III. Toward the dissolution of modernity: the politics of (auto- )formation of the real prelude: forms of the singular versus Georges Bataille's informe
  • Kurt Schwitters's forme indefinie and Merzbau arche-texture versus vertical architecture
  • Walter Benjamin: the intoxicated physiognomist: writing denkbilder in the name of Ariadne
  • Benjamin's urban arche-texture: thought-images toward the dissolution of the labyrinth of phantasmagoria
  • Conclusion: the politics of (auto- )formation of the real from the visual unconscious: Einstein and Benjamin.