The Visual Culture Reader (Paperback, 3 ed)

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 Ranciere  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" Rene 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: Flaneur/Flaneuse" 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