It is claimed that images have ceased to operate as images, that is to say, they are unable to cause an alteration in the sensibility of the observer. If to imagine means to register a possibility in life, we are told that images have now lost that capacity. However, before accepting their disintegration, perhaps we should ask ourselves how images can take on other characteristics and resist the circulation of sensibility imposed by cultural hegemonies?

The book Imágenes que resisten. La genealogía como método crítico (Images That Resist. Genealogy as a critical method) analyses one of the most important critical categories for examining power relations: genealogy. It is considered a knowledge of minutiae, recovery of memories, processes, conflicts and particularities. The following questions arise here: What could a genealogy through the image be? What are its powers? What possibilities does it offer?

Andrea Soto Calderón is a doctor in Philosophy and professor of Aesthetics and Theories of Art at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. In addition to teaching, since 2017 she has been conducting research in relation to the functioning of images at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge in Barcelona. Her research focuses on the transformations of the aesthetic experience in contemporary culture, artistic research, the study of image and the media, and the relationship between aesthetics and politics.

Her recent publications include the book Le travail des images (The Work of Images) together with Jacques Rancière (Les presses du réel, 2019), La performatividad de las imágenes (The Performativity of Images, Metales Pesados, 2020) and Imaginación material (Material Imagination, Metales Pesados, 2022).