Visual Worlds (Hardcover)

Introduction: Visual Cultures and Visual Worlds Part 1: Cultures  Political Culture 1. Uncle Sam Needs a Wife: Citizenship and Denegation 2. Televisual Popular Politics: Diana and Democracy 3. Manufacturing Dissent: Challenges for Activism and Alternative Voices in the Post 9/11 World Visual Culture 4. Art at the Intersection of Social Fields 5. Heart of Darkness: A Journey into the Dark Matter of the Art World 6. Primetime Art as Seen on Melrose Place Part 2: Worlds  Social Worlds 7. Electronic Habitus Agit-Prop in an Imaginary World 8. Los Angeles as Visual World: Media, Seeing and the City 9. Photography’s Decline into Modernism: In praise of ‘Bad’ Photographs 10. Between the Net and the Deep Blue Sea (Rethinking the Traffic in Photographs) Warring Worlds 11. Witness to Surrender 12. Under Siege: Mona Hatoum’s Art of Displacement 13. Mea Culpa: On Residual Culture and the Turn to Ethics Epilogue Visual Worlds, after 9/11