This book addresses the impact of cybernetics, post-metaphysical philosophy and new materialisms upon our understanding of the formation, reproduction, storage and circulation of the photographic image from across a number of disciplines.

Chapter One: The New Paradigm - Daniel Rubinstein; Part I: From Pictorial Practices to Algorithmic Capitalism, Chapter Two: Images Without Worlds - Claire Colebrook; Chapter Three: Undoing Imperial Modernity - Ariella Azoulay; Chapter Four: Between Topography and Topology - Susan Trangmar; Chapter Five: Creating London's Image - Pat Naldi; Chapter Six: Drone Alliances - Sarah Tuck; Psrt II: The Image Between Representation and Automation, Chapter Seven: From Photographic Representation to the 'Photographic Genotype' - Yael Eylat Van Essen; Chapter Eight: Graven Images: Photography after Heidegger, Lyotard and Deleuze - Daniel Rubinstein; Chapter Nine: Refuse to Let the Syntaxes of (a) History Direct Our Futures - Rosa Menkman; Chapter Ten: Atoms and Worms (Ontologies of Fragments) - Jamie Brassett; Chapter Eleven: Photographic Futures - Armen Avanessian and Anke Hennig; Part III: The Materialism of Networked Intelligence, Chapter Twelve: Empathy and Gesture: Aby Warburg in La cappella Sassetti - Andrew Benjamin; Chapter Thirteen: Post-Photographic Frenzy - Joseph Nechvatal; Chapter Fourteen: The Defragmenting Image: Stories in Cinematic Time-Travel - John Ó Maoilearca; Chapter Fifteen: Introduction to Natural Language Processing - Anamarija Ami Podrebarac; Chapter Sixteen: The Photograph of Thought - Johnny Golding