„Is it what we feel when an image seems to demand something from us, to challenge us with something that exeeds ist nameable content? Could it be that we are condemned to a „partial knowledge“ of images, both in the sense of what we can know, and of the knowledge that they carry? There is no way of knowing at the outset what limits of this metaphor are, what the its „proper“ meaning is, what belongs to it as its home territory. In this respect, the metapicture of the living image is itself the quintessential migratory creature in its refusal of borders. “
W.J.T. Mitchell: Totemism, Fetishism, Idolatry. In Migrating Images, HKW Berlin 2004
