Author's statement Foreword by S. Venus Jin 1. The Image: What It Is and What It Does Rethinking Representation and the Performativity of the Image Framing the Contemporary Image Rethinking the Visual Vocabulary A Living Glossary 2. Seeing Through: From Perception to Operation From Cognitive Image Formation to Infrastructural Aesthetics Image as Agent Visual Content and Machinic Operation The Contemporary Regime of Visuality Images After Representation 3. Early Trajectories: Transformative Perspectives on Photography and Mass-Media McLuhan, Flusser, Vaccari: Historical Legacies and Theoretical Inflections Precedents and Frameworks Marshall McLuhan: Pattern and Intuition Vilém Flusser: Code and Apparatus Franco Vaccari: The Technological Unconscious 4. Encoding the Visible Compression, Circulation, and Modulation in Image Behavior The Image as Modus Operandi Circulationism: The Structure of Imaging Operational Aesthetics 5. Visualizing Futures: Approaches Across Disciplines Journalism, Sociology, Technology, and Art: Reframing Visual Paradigms Looking, Seeing, Imaging as Thinking Practice Journalism after the Evidentiary Image Sociology and the Media Machine Technology as Mechanism and Milieu Image Systems and Artistic Production Segue: From Disciplines to Practices 6. Practices of Hyper-imaging Case Studies: Steyerl, Goudal, Syms, Bridle, Quayola The Next Field: Hyper-imaging in Action Hito Steyerl: Image as Disappearance / Weapon / Echo Noémie Goudal: Layering the Visual Martine Syms: Horizontality and Images James Bridle: The Network and the Image Quayola: Computation and Images Working the Image 7.

Curating the Image-World Exhibition-making as Knowledge Device: On Expansion and Pristina Case Studies The Evolution of Cultural Interactions On Expansion and Hyperimaging! The Aesthetic Experience: Non-Linear, Uncertain, and Unfinished Erica Scourti: Reauthoring the Algorithm Thomas Galler: The Aesthetics of Accumulation Margo Wolowiec: Context and Images Brilant Pireva: Distributed Subjectivity From Visual Intimacy to Navigational Method 8. The Possibility of an Image The Intermediacy of Appearance, Code, and Experience In-between Object, System, and Experience Systems Thinking: From Object to Instruction Collapsing the Frame Image-Making as Aggregation Triangulating Appearance, Code, and Experience 9. The Transparent Layer Final Propositions: Toward a Politics of Perceptual Mediation The Invisibility of the Image Curating in the Age of Hyper-imaging From Visual Life to Curatorial Attitude Toward an Ethics of Hyper-visual Mediation Afterword by Melanie Lenz Author's postscript: A Future Layer Bibliography and Sources Projects and Works Referenced Index.