{"product_id":"0415782627-the_visual_culture_reader","title":"The Visual Culture Reader","description":"\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePolitics \u0026amp; Social Sciences\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSociology\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eReference\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Used - Very Good","offer_id":46692250255550,"sku":"0415782627-3","price":46.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/71AZqC2miuL.jpg?v=1777401188","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0415782627-the_visual_culture_reader","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}