The Diverse Essays Collected Here Constitute An Exploration Of The Emerging Interdisciplinary Field Of Visual Culture, And Examine Why Modern And Postmodern Culture Place Such A Premium On Rendering Experience In Visual Form. Introduction : For Critical Visuality Studies -- Part 1. Expansions: There Are No Visual Media / W.j.t. Mitchell -- The (in)human Spatial Condition : A Visual Essay / Ariella Azoulay -- 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 -- Part 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 -- Part 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 / Anne Friedberg -- 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 -- Part 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. Edited By Nicholas Mirzoeff. First Edition: 1998; Second Edition: 2002. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
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Publisher : Routledge
Author : Mirzoeff, Nicholas
Language : English
Edition : 3
Published :2012-07-27
Number Of Pages : 724
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0415782627
ISBN-13 : 9780415782623
Item weight : 3.04 lb
Dimensions : 1.34 in x 6.77 in x 9.61 in
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