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Visual worlds / edited by John R. Hall, Blake Stimson and Lisa Tamiris Becker.

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: International library of sociologyPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005Description: x, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0415362121
9780415362122
0203012372
9780203012376

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DDC classification:

301 22

LOC classification:

HM500 .V56 2005

Contents:

Introduction : visual cultures and visual worlds / Blake Stimson -- 1. Uncle Sam needs a wife : citizenship and denegation / Lauren Berlant -- 2. Televisual popular politics : Diana and democracy / Jon Simons -- 3. Manufacturing dissent : challenges for activism and alternative voices in the post-9/11 world / M. Kauffmann and L. Stanley -- 4. Art at the intersection of social fields / Andrea Fraser -- 5. Heart of darkness : a journey into the dark matter of the art world / Gregory Sholette -- 6. Primetime art as seen on Melrose Place / The Gala Committee -- 7. Electronic habitus : agit-prop in an imaginary world / Jennifer Gonzalez -- 8. Los Angeles as visual world : media, seeing, and the city / Darnell M. Hunt -- 9. Photography's decline into modernism : in praise of "bad" photographs / Marshall Battani -- 10. Between the net and the deep blue sea (rethinking the traffic in photographs) / Allan Sekula -- 11. Witness to surrender / Robin Wagner-Pacifici -- 12. Under siege : Mona Hatoum's art of displacement / Anneke Voorhees -- 13. Mea Culpa : on residual culture and the turn to ethics / Mary Kelly -- Epilogue : visual worlds, after 9/11 / Martin Jay.

Review: "Visual Worlds was conceived to address a bold query: how, it asks, are our experience and understanding of vision and visual form changing under pressure from the various social, economic and cultural factors that are linked under the term globalization? To consider this question, the volume gathers together a diverse group of internationally renowned artists and scholars from a variety of fields including art history, literary theory and criticism, cultural studies, film and television studies, intellectual history and sociology. At issue for each author is what Lauren Berlant, in the volume's first essay, calls "dense and radiant images of the politically saturated" world that are "employed as vehicles for shaping a collective sense of social belonging." The other essays overlap in their considerations of the tensions between cultures and worlds, political life and everyday social experience, peace and war. The conversation that develops between the voices represented here touches down on points arrayed across many visual worlds and provides a unique opportunity for considering the changing character of visual experience today."--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	301 VIS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A293638B

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Previous	301 TOW Toward a general theory of action : theoretical foundations for the social sciences /	301 TOW Toward a general theory of action /	301 USE The uses of sociology /	301 VIS Visual worlds /	301 WAR Publics and counterpublics /	301 WEA Weaving a double-cloth : stories of Asia-pacific women in Australia /	301 WEA Weaving a double-cloth : stories of Asia-pacific women in Australia /	Next

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Visual Worlds was conceived to address a bold query: how, it asks, are our experience and understanding of vision and visual form changing under pressure from the various social, economic and cultural factors that are linked under the term globalization? To consider this question, the volume gathers together a diverse group of internationally renowned artists and scholars from a variety of fields including art history, literary theory and criticism, cultural studies, film and television studies, intellectual history and sociology. At issue for each author is what Lauren Berlant, in the volume's first essay, calls "dense and radiant images of the politically saturated" world that are "employed as vehicles for shaping a collective sense of social belonging." The other essays overlap in their considerations of the tensions between cultures and worlds, political life and everyday social experience, peace and war. The conversation that develops between the voices represented here touches down on points arrayed across many visual worlds and provides a unique opportunity for considering the changing character of visual experience today."--BOOK JACKET.

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