Abstract
Organized around images used throughout this book, “Afterwords” pieces together an image-based pathway that bends the original in-text images in a slightly different but nevertheless complementary direction. From the reproduction of the cover image through to the final political calculation, the traditional relationship between image and text is reversed. Images are no longer purely illustrative while text is no longer central. Text as footnotes decouples the images from their original usage and opens different meanings and approaches that nevertheless reinforce the overarching argument of the book. While the shadow of this original usage remains, the new relationship of image and text enables new meanings and connections to be generated that reinforce the overarching critique of political science as a calculable discipline.