ABSTRACT
Where Frantz Fanon’s sociogeny possessed parameters located in psyche, social relations, and language, the psycho-social realm to which we are today “restored,” is one of psyche extruded, of the micro-politics of social relation, and one where images are structured like language. Our contemporary imagistic sociogeny reifies death’s facticity and embeds its ubiquity in the field of meaning making-the space wherein love and understanding have actually become problems. While contemporary images are not themselves more important now than they have been in the past, today’s images play a uniquely significant role in the telling of stories of self, in the defining of the boundaries of the real, in the weaving of discourses of authenticity, and therefore in the arbitration, ultimately, of identity.
