The visual culture reader : edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff

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Main Title: The visual culture reader
Author(s): Mirzoeff, Nicholas
Publisher: Oxon : Routledge, 2013
Collation: 686 p. : b/w ill.
25 cm.
ISBN: 9780415782623
Dewey Class: 306.47
Contents: PART 1 Expansions. 1: "There are No Visual Media" / W. J. T. Mitchell -- 2: "The (In)human condition: A Visual Essay" / Ariella Azoulay -- 3: "Mapping Non-Conformity: Post-Bubble Urban Strategies" / Teddy Cruz -- 4: "X-reality: Interview with the Virtual Cannibal" / Beth Coleman -- 5: "On Software, or the Persistence of Visual Knowledge" / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun -- 6: "Notes on the Photographic Image" / Jacques Rancière -- 7: "Queer Faces: Photography and Subcultural Lives" / J. Jack Halberstam -- 8: "Currents of Worldmaking in Contemporary Art" / Terence E. Smith -- 9: "Sublimated with Mineral Fury: Prelim Notes on Sounding Pandemonium Asia" / Sarat Maharaj -- 10: "The Sea and the Land: Biopower and Visuality after Katrina" / Nicholas Mirzoeff --
PART 2: GLOBALIZATION, WAR AND VISUAL ECONOMY. War and Violence -- 11: "The Archaeology of Violence: The King’s Head" / Zainab Bahrani -- 12: "The Actuarial Gaze: from 9-11 to Abu Ghraib" / Allen Feldman -- 13: "American Military Imaginaries and Iraqi cities" / Derek Gregory -- 14: "Zeroing In: Overheard Imagery, Infrastructure Ruins, and Datalands in Afghanistan and Iraq" / Lisa Parks -- 15: "What Greg Roberts Saw: Visuality, Intelligibility, and Sovereignty - 36,000km Over the Equator." / Trevor Paglen -- 16: "Media and Martyrdom" / Faisal Devji -- 17: "Live True Life or Die Trying" / Naeem Mohaiemen -- Attention and Visualizing Economy -- 18: "Kino I, Kino World: Notes on the Cinematic Mode of Production" / Jonathan L. Beller -- 19: "On Virtuosity" / Paolo Virno -- 20: "Faking Globalization" / Ackbar Abbas -- 21: "Creativity and the Problem of Free Labor" / Andrew Ross -- 22: "It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism" / Mark Fisher -- 23: "Do It Yourself Geo-Politics" / Brian Holmes --
PART 3: THE BODY, COLONIALITY AND VISUALITY. Bodies and Minds -- 24: "Optics" / René Descartes -- 25: "Blindness and Visual Culture: An Eye-Witness Account" / Georgina Kleege -- 26: "Reduplicative Desires" / Carol Mavor -- 27: "The Persistence of Vision" / Donna Haraway -- 28: "The body and/in representation" / Amelia Jones -- 29: "Mami Wata: A Transoceanic Water Spirit of Global Modernity" / Henry Drewal -- Histories and Memories -- 30: "The Mobilized and Virtual Gaze in Modernity: Flâneur/Flâneuse" / Anne Friedberg -- 31: "Tourism and Sacred Ground: The Space of Ground Zero" / Marita Sturken -- 32: "Maps, Mother/Goddesses and Martyrdom in Modern India" / Sumathi Ramaswamy -- 33: "Museums in Late Democracies" / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- 34: "The Fact of Blackness" / Frantz Fanon -- 35: "The Case of Blackness" / Fred Moten -- (Post/De/Neo)Colonial Visualities -- 36: "Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order" / Timothy Mitchell -- 37: "The Colonial Harem" / Malek Alloula -- 38: "Vodun Art, Social History and the Slave Trade" / Suzanne Preston Blier -- 39: "Between Cult and Culture: Bamiyan, Islamic Iconoclasm and the Museum," / Finbarr Barry Flood -- 40: "The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition." / Okwui Enwezor -- 41: "Urban Warfare: Walking Through Walls" / Eyal Weizman --
PART 4: MEDIA AND MEDIATIONS. 42: "U.S. Operating Systems at Midcentury: The Intertwining of Race and UNIX" / Tara McPherson -- 43: "Rethinking the Digital Age" / Faye Ginsburg -- 44: "The Unworkable Interface" / Alex Galloway -- 45: "On the Superiority of the Analog" / Brian Massumi -- 46: "Race 2.0: Neoliberal Colorblindness in the Age of Participatory Media" / Lisa Nakamura -- 47: "Imagination, Multimodality and Embodied Interaction: A Discussion of Sound and Movement in Two Cases of Laboratory and Clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging" / Lisa Cartwright and Morana Alac.
Language: English
Subject: Arts, Modern -- 21st century.
Arts, Modern -- 20th century.
BRN: 989

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