ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the way the Islamic State uses images to present its fight against what it identifies as idolatry. It is argued that the Islamic State’s spectacular destruction of cultural properties, as well as making these acts of iconoclasm visible, are key components of its strategy to bring about fundamental social change. By rendering its iconoclastic acts visible in pictures, the Islamic State not only displays its regulative authority and power, but also produces a specifically framed testimony of the destruction and the resulting empty spaces while keeping memories of this destruction alive.
