A theoretical meditation that reconceives images not as static representations but as living, circulating agents embedded in networks of perception, technology and power; it argues for an “ecology” that tracks how images attract and redistribute attention, interact with viewers and other images, mutate through technical and institutional media, and produce collective effects and political consequences, drawing on examples from art, cinema, advertising and archives to show how attending to an image’s agency and environment reshapes our understanding of aesthetics, mediation and public life.

A set of philosophical reflections that reconceives imagination as a productive power mediating between perception, memory, language, and action. Through inquiries into image, metaphor, and narrative, it shows how imaginative redescription opens new possibilities of meaning and reorients practical understanding. It also probes the social and ethical stakes of the imaginary—such as ideology, utopia, critique, and hope—while engaging classical and phenomenological perspectives to explain how images and stories shape subjectivity, interpretation, and the horizon of human action.