The visual culture reader / edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff.

CW038, CW047

CW057, CW088

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 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 -- 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 / 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 -- 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.

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.

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