The Visual Culture Reader

Produktbeschreibung

In response to rapid changes in the field of visual culture, this updated third edition brings together key writings on photography, painting, sculpture, fashion, advertising, television, cinema and digital culture. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Autoreninfo

Nicholas Mirzoeff is Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. He is author and editor of several books including Watching Babylon (1995) and An Introduction to Visual Culture, now in its second edition (2009).