Sandywell - Dictionary of Visual Discourse: A Dialectical Lexicon of Terms

Dictionary of Visual Discourse

For Isabel Lavn Garzn

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A Dialectical Lexicon of Terms

BARRY SANDYWELL
University of York

ASHGATE

Barry Sandywell 2011

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Sandywell, Barry.

Dictionary of visual discourse: a dialectical lexicon of terms.

1. Aesthetics--Dictionaries. 2. Visualization-

Dictionaries.

I. Title

121.3503-dc22

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Sandywell, Barry.

Dictionary of visual discourse: a dialectical lexicon of terms / Barry Sandywell.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-0188-9 (hardcover) -- ISBN 978-1-4094-0189-6 (ebook)

1. Aesthetics--Dictionaries. 2. Vision--Dictionaries. 3. Hermeneutics--Dictionaries. 4. Image (Philosophy)--Dictionaries. I. Title.

BH39. S257 2009

11185--dc22

2010002404

ISBN 978-1-4094-0188-9 (hbk)

ISBN 978-1-4094-0189-6 (ebk)

ISBN 978-1-4094-8662-6 (ebk-ePUB)

Printed and bound in Great Britain by the MPG Books Group, UK

My greatest debt is to Isabel Lavn Garzn; if it was possible I would like to acknowledge her presence in every word, line and page of this work. Whatever illumination I have found in the researches that inform this book has been made possible by her unfailing love, friendship and support.

I would like to acknowledge a number of people involved in bringing the Dictionary of Visual Discourse into the public domain. I wish to extend my thanks to Dymphna Evans, Publisher at Ashgate, for supporting this project and providing timely advice and encouragement throughout the production process, Pam Bertram, Senior Editor, for efficiently managing the text through the production stages, and Patrick Cole for his keen copy-editors eye and probing questions. All their help has been much appreciated.

A

Abschattungen (or Aspects)

Absolute, the

Absolute Freedom

Abstraction

Abyss

Academy, the

Acculturation

Adamic Language

Aesthetic(s), Art and Beauty

Aesthetic Attitude

Aesthetic Machines

Aesthetic Materialism

Aesthetic Reflexivity

Aesthetic Relativism

Aesthetic Sensibility

Aesthetic, Transcendental

Age of Reason

Age of the World View

Aleatory Logics

Aletheia

Algorithm

Algorithmic Reason (Rationality)

Alienation/Alienation Effect

Allegory

Alphabet

Alpha-Omega

Als ob

Ambiguity

Amour-propre

Analogue Computation

Analogy

Analysis

Anamnesis

Anatomy

Androgyny

Anthropic Principle (Anthropic Cosmological Principle)

Anthropocentrism

Aphorism

Apocalypse

Appearance/Appearing

Appearance-and-Reality

Apperception

A priori

Archaeology (of Knowledge)

Archetype(s)

Archimedean Point

Architecture

Art

Articulation

Artwork(s)

As

As-if

Aspect(s)

Aspectival

Association

Associationism

Assumption

Ataraxia

Atomism

Atoms

Atonement

Augenmensch

Authenticity

Author

Authorial Intentionality

Authorial Subjectivity

Authoritative Text

Autocritique (Autocriticism)

Autograph

Avant-garde

Awareness

Awareness Threshold

B

Baroque

Be

Beauty

Being

Being-at-hand

Being-in-the-world

Bewusstsein

Binary Hierarchy/Matrix

Black

Black Holes

Blindness

Body (Embodiment)

Boredom

Bricoleur

C

Calculus

Camera

Camera Lucida

Camera Obscura 1

Camera Obscura 2

Cantors Paradox

Capital/Capitalism

Carnal Reflexivity

Cartesian

Cartesian Dualism

Cartesian Neurosis

Casuist/Casuistry

Categorical Imperative

Category Mistake

Cause

Cave

Certainty

Ceteris Paribus

Chaos

Cinema

Civilization of the Sign

Clarity/Clarification

Class

Classification(s)

Clear and Distinct

Cogito (or The Cogito)

Cogito ergo sum

Cognition

Cognitive Filters

Colour

Common Sense

Communication

Complex Ideas

Concept(s)

Conceptual Cognition

Conceptual Framework

Conceptual Hierarchy

Conceptual History

Conceptualism

Configuration

Conjunctural Experiences

Conscience

Conscience Collective

Consciousness

Consciousness, Class

Consciousness, Collective

Consciousness, False

Consciousness, History of

Consciousness, Imaginary

Consciousness, Modes of

Consciousness, Philosophies of

Consciousness Raising

Consciousness, Sociology of

Consciousness, Stream of

Constellation

Constructivism

Contemplate/Contemplation

Contiguity

Contingency

Copy Theory of Truth

Correspondence Theory of Truth

Cosmological Argument

Cosmology

Cosmos

Cosmos of Forms

Criterion

Critical Thinking

Criticism

Critique

Cultural Anthropology/Sociology

Cultural Field(s)

Cultural Praxis

Culture

Culture, Customer

Culture of the Image (Simulacral Culture)

Culture, Postmodern

Culture, as Value

Cybernetics

Cyberspace

Cybervision

Cyborg

Cyclopean

D

Data

Death

Deconstruction

Deconstruction as analysis

Deconstruction as an overcoming of opposites

Deconstruction as therapy

Definite Article

Definition

Deixis

Derealization

Design

Detail

Diagram/Diagrammatization

Dialectic(s)

Dialectical Image

Dialectical Imagination

Dialectic of Enlightenment

Dialogue

Difference/Diffrance

Ding-an-sich (or Das Ding-an-sich)

Discourse

Discourse Analysis

Discourse Formations

Dogma

Dreams

Dualism

Ducks and Rabbits

E

Eden

Education

Ego

Egocentric Predicament

Egoism

Eidetic Diagram

Eidetic Image(ry)

Eidolon/Eidola

Eidos

Empirical

Empiricism

Empiricism, Analytical

Empiricism, Instrumental

Empiricism, Logical

Empiricism, as Neopositivism

Empiricism, Radical

End

End of Art

End of End

End of Epistemology

End of Logicism