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Wie kommt eine Gesellschaft zu ihren Bildern? Oder: Zur bildlichen Konstruktion gesellschaftlicher Wirklichkeit

Author(s): Karpf, Michael

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In the sociological debate, images are increasingly perceived as a central ele-ment of the constitution of social reality. Accordingly, images are no longer simply objects of research that allow access to social phenomena, but inde-pendent moments of the formation of society. The present considerations at-tempt to trace this sociological function of images theoretically on the basis of the self-images of a society by reconstructing the genesis of socially shared images. For this purpose, current sociological reflections on images as well as a sociology of memory are used to recapitulate the ›collectivization of images‹ as a process of collectivizing ›shared spaces‹ of imagination. The aim is to un-derstand images as already circulating social forms in society, which result from a common access to social reality, and through whose cultural fixation or objectivation an access to a socially shared idea of society is made accessible for the individual members of society.

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Karpf, Michael: Wie kommt eine Gesellschaft zu ihren Bildern? Oder: Zur bildlichen Konstruktion gesellschaftlicher Wirklichkeit. In: IMAGE. Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft, Jg. 17 (2021), Nr. 2, S. 38-59. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16323.
@ARTICLE{Karpf2021,
 author = {Karpf, Michael},
 title = {Wie kommt eine Gesellschaft zu ihren Bildern? Oder: Zur bildlichen Konstruktion gesellschaftlicher Wirklichkeit},
 year = 2021,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16323}",
 volume = 17,
 address = {Köln},
 journal = {IMAGE. Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft},
 number = 2,
 pages = {38--59},
}
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