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The visual culture reader
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From the Book - 3rd ed.
pt. 1 Expansions : There are no visual media / W.J.T. Mitchell
The (in)human spatial condition : a visual essay
Mapping non-conformity : post-bubble urban strategies / Teddy Cruz
X-reality : interview with the virtual cannibal / Beth Coleman
On software, or the persistence of visual knowledge / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Notes on the photographic image / Jacques Rancière
Queer faces : photography and subcultural lives / Jack Halberstam
Currents of worldmaking in contemporary art / Terry Smith
Sublimated with mineral fury : prelim notes on sounding pandemonium Asia / Sarat Maharaj
The sea and the land : biopower and visuality from slavery to Katrina / Nicholas Mirzoeff
pt. 2 Globalization, war and visual economy : (a) War and violence : The archaeology of violence : the king's head / Zainab Bahrani
On the actuarial gaze : from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib / Allen Feldman
American military imaginaries and Iraqi cities / Derek Gregory
Zeroing in : overhead imagery, infrastructure ruins, and datalands in Afghanistan and Iraq / Lisa Parks
What Greg Roberts saw : visuality, intelligibility, and sovereignty : 36,000km over the equator / Trevor Paglen
Media and martyrdom / Faisal Devji
Live true life or die trying / Naeem Mohaiemen
(b) Attention and visualizing economy : Kino-I, Kino-world : notes on the cinematic mode of production / Jonathan L. Beller
On virtuosity / Paolo Virno
Faking globalization / Ackbar Abbas
Creativity and the problem of free labor / Andrew Ross
It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism / Mark Fisher
Do it yourself geo-politics / Brian Holmes
pt. 3 The body, coloniality and visuality : (a) Bodies and minds : Optics / René Descartes
Blindness and visual culture : an eye witness account / Georgina Kleege
Reduplicative desires / Carol Mavor
The persistence of vision / Donna Haraway
The body and/in representation / Amelia Jones
Forever modern : Mami Wata visual culture and history in Africa / Henry John Drewal
(b) Histories and memories : The mobilized and virtual gaze in modernity : flâneur/flâneuse
Tourism and "sacred ground" : the space of ground zero / Marita Sturken
Maps, mother/goddesses, and martyrdom in modern India / Sumathi Ramaswamy
Museums in late democracies / Dipesh Chakrabarty
The fact of blackness / Frantz Fanon
The case of blackness / Fred Moten
(c) (Post/de/neo)colonial visualities : Orientalism and the exhibitionary order / Timothy Mitchell
from The colonial harem / Malek Alloula
Vodun art, social history and the slave trade / Suzanne Preston Blier
Between cult and culture : Bamiyan, Islamic iconoclasm and the museum / Finbarr Barry Flood
The postcolonial constellation : contemporary art in a state of permanent transition / Okwui Enwezor
Urban warfare : walking through walls / Eyal Weizman
pt. 4 Media and mediations : U.S. operating systems at midcentury : the intertwining of race and unix / Tara McPherson
Rethinking the digital age / Faye Ginsburg
The unworkable interface / Alexander R. Galloway
On the superiority of the analog / Brian Massumi
Digital racial formations and networked images of the body / Lisa Nakamura
Imagination, multimodality and embodied interaction : a discussion of sound and movement in two cases of laboratory and clinical magnetic resonance imaging / Lisa Cartwright, Morana Alac.
From the Book - 2nd ed.
Introduction/provocations/conversations : The subject of visual culture / Nicholas Mirzeoff ; Studying visual culture / Irit Rogoff ; Narrativizing visual culture: towards a polycentric aesthetics / Ella Shohat and Robert Stam ; Kino-I, Kino-world: notes on the cinematic mode of production / Jonathan L. Beller ; Showing seeing: a critique of visual culture / W.J.T. Mitchell ; Conversations in visual culture / Raiford Guins, Joanne Morra, Marquard Smith and Omayra Cruz Plug-in theory : Introduction to plug-in theory / Nicholas Mirzeoff ; Optics / René Descartes ; The fetishism of the commodity / Karl Marx ; Double consciousness / W.E.B. Dubois ; What is a picture? / Jacques Lacan ; The fact of blackness / Frantz Fanon ; Woman in a mirror / Marshall McLuhan ; Rhetoric of the image / Roland Barthes ; Ideology and ideological state apparatuses / Louis Althusser ; The society of the spectacle / Guy Debord ; Simulacra and simulations / Jean Baudrillard ; Prohibition, psychoanalysis and the heterosexual matrix / Judith Butler ; Virtual bodies and flickering signifiers / N. Katherine Hayles Part I. Global/digital : A. Imagining globalization : Here and now / Arjun Appadurai ; Remaking passports: visual thought in the debate on multiculturalism / Néstor García Canclini ; Ethnicity and internationality: new British art and diaspora-based blackness / Kobena Mercer ; The multiple viewpoint: diaspora and visual culture / Nicholas Mirzeoff ; Gender, race and nation in Japanese contemporary art and criticism / Lisa Bloom B. The space of the digital : Of other spaces / Michel Foucault ; Spectres of cyberspace / Geoffrey Batchen ; Othering space / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun ; 'Where do you want to go today?" Cybernetic tourism, the internet, and transnationality / Lisa Nakamura ; Eden by wire: webcameras and the telepresent landscape / Thomas J. Campanella ; Satellite and cyber visualities: analyzing 'digital earth' / Lisa Parks Part II. Spectacle and display : A. Spectacle, display, surveillance : Historical citizenship and the Fremantle Prison follies: Frederick Wiseman comes to Western Australia / Toby Miller ; Visual stories / Ann Reynolds ; The great un-American numbers game / Andrew Ross ; The wall, the screen and the image: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial / Marita Sturken ; The prison house of culture: why African art? Why the Guggenheim? Why now? / Michele Wallace ; Videotech / John Fiske B. Cinema after film, television after the networks : The mobilized and virtual gaze in modernity: Flâneur/Flâneuse / Anne Friedberg ; What is digital cinema? / Lev Manovich ; Film and the digital in visual studies: film studies in the era of convergence / Lisa Cartwright ; Kung Fu cinema and frugality / May Joseph ; The video public sphere / David Joselit ; Reload: liveness, mobility and the Web / Tara McPherson
Part III. Visual colonialism/visual transculture : A. Visual colonialism : Visual regimes of colonization: aboriginal seeing and European vision in Australia / Terry Smith ; Orientalism and the exhibitionary order / Timothy Mitchell ; Soft-soaping empire: commodity racism and imperial advertising / Anne McClintock ; From The colonial harem / Malek Alloula ; Vodun art, social history and the slave trade / Suzanne Preston Blier
B. Identity and transculture : "His master's obi": machine magic, colonial violence, and transculturation / Jill H. Casid ; Passing for white, passing for black / Adrian Piper ; The other history of intercultural performance / Coco Fusco ; Photography and the substance of the image / Olu Oguibe ; Engendering new worlds: allegories of rape and reconciliation / Oriana Baddeley
Part IV. The gaze, the body and sexuality : A. The gaze and sexuality : Ideal masculinities: an anatomy of power / Anthea Callen ; The forbidden gaze: women artists and the male nude in late nineteenth-century France / Tamar Garb ; Reduplicative desires / Carol Mavor ; The third body: patterns in the construction of the subject in gay male narrative film / Thomas Waugh ; Looking good: the lesbian gaze and fashion imagery / Reina Lewis ; The transgender gaze in Boys don't cry / Judith Halberstam
B. Technobodies/technofeminism : The persistence of vision / Donna Haraway ; On the cutting edge: cosmetic surgery and the technological production of the gendered body / Anne Balsamo ; Dispersed subjects and the demise of the 'individual' 1990s bodies in/as art / Amelia Jones.
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Subjects
Subjects
Art
Art and society
Arte
Artes
Art et société
Arte y sociedad
Arts, Modern
Arts, Modern -- 20th century
Arts, Modern -- 21st century
Beeldcultuur
Communication visuelle
Communication visuelle -- Art
Comunicación visual
Comunicación visual -- Arte
Cultura
Cultura popular
Culture populaire
Leermiddelen (vorm)
Popular culture
Sociedade
Visual communication
Visual communication -- Art
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9780415620550
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