Vol. 8 (2019)
CONDIZIONI DI POSSIBILITÀ – Letteratura e cultura visuale, a cura di F. Fastelli

The “Argus Complex”. Interview with WJT Mitchell / Il “Complesso di Argo”. Intervista a WJT Mitchell

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  • Federico Fastelli
Federico Fastelli
Università degli Studi di Firenze
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/lea-1824-484x-10996

Published 2020-12-30

Keywords

  • visual culture,
  • imagetext,
  • madness,
  • metapictures,
  • world pictures
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Abstract

The “Argus Complex” expresses a pathological desire to “see it all”, and to make everything accessible to sight. According to WJT Mitchell, this complex perfectly defines and affects our present-day condition. In the current  interview with Federico Fastelli, the father of visual culture studies explains his theorizing about the imagetext and metapicture concepts. He reflects on the contemporary political and social situation as well.

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