Description: Grammatology of Images radically alters how we approach images by asking after imaging as such. How does something a-visible get transformed into an image? The book illuminates fascinating, unexpected correspondences between premodern and contemporary image-practices, between religion and science, and between things that are and are not understood as art.
Brief description: Sigrid Weigel is former director of Zentrum für Literatur-und Kulturforschung in Berlin and has taught at numerous universities in the United States and elsewhere around the world. She has published on literature, philosophy, cultural history, image theory, memory, secularization, genealogy, and the cultural history of sciences across numerous books in German and English, including Walter Benjamin: Images, the Creaturely, and the Holy (Stanford, 2013).
Review Quotes: What do a video of a burning American flag, an MRI of the brain, and Raphael's Madonna have in common? With stunning breath and erudition, Weigel concretizes what Derrida only suspected, completes what Benjamin was unable to finish, and clarifies what mystified Warburg--revealing the powerful forces hidden at the singular point of culture, which turn cyphers into images, from the banal to the most sacred.---Jimena Canales, author of Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science