Impossible Presence

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Enervation, viscerality: the fate of the image in Modernity
Terry Smith
Chapter 1
Too much is not enough: metamorphoses of Times Square
Marshall Berman
Chapter 2
New thresholds of vision: instantaneous photography and the early cinema of Lumière
Tom Gunning
Chapter 3
Through a fishwife's eye: between Benjamin and Deleuze on the timely image
Peter J. Hutchings
Chapter 4
Realism of low resolution: digitisation and modern painting
Richard Shiff
Chapter 5
Beauty and the contemporary sublime
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
Chapter 6
Andy Warhol: snobbish machine
Jean Baudrillard
Chapter 7
Andy Warhol: chiasmatic visibility
Hugh J. Silverman
Chapter 8
Naked
Elizabeth Grosz
Chapter 9
Visceral Cholos: desublimation and the critique of Mestizaje in the Bolivian Andes
Javier Sanjines
Chapter 10
Traffic in culture: on knowing Pintupi painting
Fred R. Myers
Chapter 11
Warped Space: architectural anxiety in digital culture
Anthony Vidler
List of Images
Notes on Contributors