Nicholas Mirzoeff

The Right to Look

A Counterhistory of Visuality

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Produktbeschreibung

Nicholas Mirzoeff is Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He is the author of several books, including An Introduction to Visual Culture, Watching Babylon: The War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture, and Diaspora and Visual Culture: Representing Africans and Jews, as well as the editor of The Visual Culture Reader.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 655g
• ISBN-13: 9780822349181
• ISBN-10: 0822349183
• Artikelnr.: 33622852

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Mirzoeff is Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He is the author of several books, including An Introduction to Visual Culture, Watching Babylon: The War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture, and Diaspora and Visual Culture: Representing Africans and Jews, as well as the editor of The Visual Culture Reader.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
Preface. Ineluctable Visualities xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction. The Right to Look, or, How to Think With and Against
Visuality 1
Visualizing Visuality 35
1. Oversight: The Ordering of Slavery 48
2. The Modern Imaginary: Anti-Slavery Revolutions and the Right to
Existence 77
Puerto Rican Counterpoint I 117
3. Visuality: Authority and War 123
4. Abolition Realism: Reality, Realisms, and Revolution 155
Puerto Rican Counterpoint II 188
5. Imperial Visuality and Countervisuality, Ancient and Modern 196
6. Anti-Fascist Neorealisms: North-South and the Permanent Battle for
Algiers 232
Mexican-Spanish Counterpoint 271
7. Global Counterinsurgency and the Crisis of Visuality 277
Notes 311
Bibliography 343
Index 373