Image, Icon, Economy: The Byzantine Origins of the Contemporary Imaginary
The barest awareness of the ubiquity and influence of the media today provides proof enough that our fate is in the hands of the image. But when and how was this fate sealed? Image, Icon, Economy considers this question and recounts an essential thread in the conceptualization of visual images within the Western tradition. This book argues that the extraordinary force of the image in contemporary life—the contemporary imaginary—can be traced back to the Byzantine iconoclastic controversy of...
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This book argues that the extraordinary force of the image in contemporary life—the contemporary imaginary—can be traced back to the Byzantine iconoclastic controversy of the eighth and ninth centuries.
1Principal themes112A semantic study of the term Economy183The doctrine of the image and icon694Sacred precinct and profane space1185Iconic space and territorial rule1516The idol's Delenda Est1767Ghost story1928The Jew, frontally and in profile209Extracts from the Iconoclast Horos of Hieria227Extracts from the Antirrhetics, by Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople233
