This book analyzes one of the most relevant critical categories for examining power relations: genealogy. Considered a knowledge of minutiae, of recovery of memories, of processes, of conflicts, of particularities not so much erased as neglected. The question that opens here is what could be a genealogy through the image? What are its powers? What possibilities does it enable?

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).