Dialectical Image

Title: Dialectical Image
Description: "The image of the dialectical image might be something like a vector diagram showing the resultant of the forces signified by the claims of history, truth, material and meaning; or perhaps something like a flow diagram laying out and comparing the procedural steps from component operations such as perception, collection, combination, metaphor and mimesis, towards synthetic constructions such as allegory, montage, mosaic and treatise. Enough hints can be found in Benjamin's writing to justify sketching diagrams such as Buck-Morss displays in her book on the Arcades, as much to test the possible coherence of the theory as to explain it"
Creator: Walter Benjamin
Date: 1989
Source: https://www.imageandnarrative.be/inarchive/thinking_pictures/auerbach.htm#fig01
Bibliographic Citation: Auerbach, A. Imagine no Metaphors: the dialectical image of Walter Benjamin. Image [&] Narrative [e-journal], 18 (2007).
Available: http://www.imageandnarrative.be/thinking_pictures/auerbach.htm