Na selva das imagens: Algumas contribuições para uma teoria da imagem na esfera das ciências da comunicação

Abstract

The number o f authors and works dedicated to the understanding of phenomena related to the visuality and its exacerbation in the last decades o f the twentieth century h as grown, and, consequently, the controversy around this field has been stirred. The contributions of neurology, psychology, social sciences and sciences o f the language on the subject have proved essential for a larger understanding ofthe meanings and uses o f image in the field o f communication. Some o f these contributions are treated here, notably those who transit through the areas of the theory of culture in its interfaces with sciences of communication; amongst them, authors such as A. Damásio, B. Cyrulnik, E. Morin, D. Linke and H. Belting receive privileged attention for transposing the borders of monodisciplinarity, offering more complex and procedural perspectives for the study o f image in the field of communication, avoiding classificatory uses oftipology.