image of thought

In “The Image of Thought,” (from Difference and Repetition) ⁴, Gilles Deleuze launches a critique of the image of thought that proves particularly illuminating when confronting the problem of assessing digital literacy. In Deleuze’s terms, standardized modes of assessment and their audiences are enthralled by the image of thought, rather than thinking. While these modes of assessment may work to measure knowledge and recognition, they have no means of accounting for thinking.