Image Politics: The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism

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“This trenchant, perennially contemporary book valorizes powerful intersubjective relations enabled by photography, relations that exceed the strictures of imperial power. In this way, we can build our capacity for “civil imagination”: a way of seeing and imagining ourselves as part of the image rather than only as spectators. Published by For Azoulay, photography’s entangled temporalities enable a transformation of our sense of what persists, just as a collective practice of civil imagination reconstructs our apprehension of those with whom we unevenly share a lifeworld. A leading philosopher presents a radical manifesto for the future of art and film