Pictorial Panopticism: A Post-Visual Tractatus

By Giorgi Vachnadze, January 9, 2026

A Review of Alessandro Sbordoni’s Beyond the Image “There is no gold standard for the image anymore.” Alessandro Sbordoni There is no temptation whatsoever to read Sbordoni’s Beyond the Image: On Visual Culture in the Twenty-First Century as another lament over the collapse of visual truth in the digital age. Here I encounter none of [...]