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Zusatztext 'This volume is required reading for anyone interested in media studies or visual culture. It brings critical visuality studies up to the moment and introduces new directions for future work. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate students! researchers! faculty.' - A. M. Laflen! Marist College in CHOICE'This is a first rate collection covering the range and the depth of critical visual studies today. An essential guide for anyone concerned with the power of the image and the image of power.' - McKenzie Wark! Eugene Lang College! USA'This 3rd edition of Nicholas Mirzoeff's The Visual Culture Reader is unrecognizable from the collection's first edition published way back in the last millennium. Its content! character! and urgency are invigorating and galvanizing. If the Reader's first edition gave shape to Visual Culture Studies as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry! this 3rd edition will! I believe! mould visual culture itself.' - Marquard Smith! Founder and Editor-in-Chief! Journal of Visual Culture & Director of Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture! University of Westminster! UK'With this volume! Mirzoeff has assembled an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners of visual culture across disciplinary and geographic boundaries. Combining foundational texts and cutting-edge contemporary scholarship! the Third Edition of the VCR charts the emergence of critical visuality studies and brings the field into the twenty-first century.' - A. Joan Saab! University of Rochester! USA Informationen zum Autor 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). Zusammenfassung 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 Proble...
