Preface
1. The Folds of the World
Layers of invisibility
The embodied sign
Ontologies of images
Geometries of figuration
Forms of ostension and powers to act
PART ONE: PRESENCES
2. Embodied Spirits
Animal persons
Think animals
Who's there?
Distinguishing resemblances
Ontological camouflage
3. Multiplying Viewpoints
4. Relational Identities
PART TWO. INDICES
5. Types of Beings and Courses of Life
Figuring the ordering
Figuring the organizer
Figuring the traces of the organizing
6. A Heraldry of Qualities
7. The Power of Traces
Variation 1. Repertoire-Image and Person-Image
PART THREE. CORRESPONDENCES
8. Exercises in Composition Hybrids and chimeras
Pictured bonds
The great world and the small one
9. Conjunctive Spaces
10. Role Playing
PART FOUR: SIMULACRA
11. Facing the World
The conquest of the visible
Painting the soul
Instituting nature
Toward immanence
Impossible objectivity
12. Objectivizing the Subjective
13. Detecting Resemblance
Variation 2. Playing on All Fronts
Conclusion. Image-Making
Ontologies
Forms
Agencies Incarnations
Postscript. Scaffoldings
The quarrel over resemblance
Animating images
Imaged languages
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
