Pathologies of the Image
Original title: Patologías de la imagen
This book deals with the conflicts produced when images become be-lligerent weapons for religious beliefs, feeding sexual passions or as militant instruments at the service of various political ideologies, from Nazism to Stalinism, passing through to contemporary videogames. This manipulation has driven its agents to areas of ethical, religious and political strains, perceived by their antagonists as heterodox, immoral, perverse or sick, to undertake a conflict that is not always res-tricted merely to the world of the imagination. An indispensable text to help us to understand a decisive aspect of our cultural history.
This book deals with the conflicts produced when images become be-lligerent weapons for religious beliefs, feeding sexual passions or as militant instruments at the service of various political ideologies, from Nazism to Stalinism, passing through to contemporary videogames. This manipulation has driven its agents to areas of ethical, religious and political strains, perceived by their antagonists as heterodox, immoral, perverse or sick, to undertake a conflict that is not always res-tricted merely to the world of the imagination. An indispensable text to help us to understand a decisive aspect of our cultural history.
