1 Imagining historical imagology Zrinka Blažević (Zagreb) Imagining historical imagology: possibilities and perspectives of transdisciplinary/translational epistemology According to the dominant epistemological trends marked by the global exchange of theoretical paradigms, this paper is aimed at examining possibilities of the epistemological constitution of the historical imagology as a transdisciplinary and translational research practice. Deining images as interferential coniguration of the mental images, representations and practice patterns within certain socio-historical context, the main focus is put on the interpretative and explanatory landmarks stemmed from neurobiological and psychoanalytical theories of the self, discourse and dispositive analyses and praxeological theories. Final part of the paper highlights some theoretical impulses of intermedia, performance, visual and postcolonial studies for examining complex dynamics of the process of appropriation, modiication and distribution of images, or, more generally, for understanding insolvable dialectics of the mutual constitution of identity and alterity in sign of Werner Kogge’s hermeneutics of non-understanding. In the wake of a transdisciplinary era in the humanities and social sciences it seems the right moment has come to seriously consider “hybridising” classical literary imagology with other paradigms as well. he irst step into this direction was a new approach to the mode of knowledge production and scientiic disciplines in general which were conceptualised both as epistemological and social formations characterised by transdisciplinarity, heterogeneity, organisational diversity and high contextual dependence. 1 However, since epistemological experiments with multi- and inter-disciplinarity did not manage to resolve the problem of creating socially relevant and efective knowledge, at the beginning of the 1 For a more detailed account see Gibbons et al.