Image operations (eBook, ePUB)

Visual media and political conflict
Redaktion: Eder, Jens; Klonk, Charlotte

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Still and moving images are crucial factors in contemporary political conflicts. They not only have representational, expressive or illustrative functions, but also augment and create significant events. Beyond altering states of mind, they affect bodies and often life or death is at stake. Various forms of image operations are currently performed in the contexts of war, insurgency and activism. Photographs, videos, interactive simulations and other kinds of images steer drones to their targets, train soldiers, terrorise the public, celebrate protest icons, uncover injustices, or call for help. They are often parts of complex agential networks and move across different media and cultural environments. This book is a pioneering interdisciplinary study of the role and function of images in political life. Balancing theoretical reflections with in-depth case studies, it brings together renowned scholars and activists from different fields to offer a multifaceted critical perspective on a crucial aspect of contemporary visual culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526108654
• Artikelnr.: 48026489

Autorenporträt

Jens Eder is Professor in Media and Communication Studies at the University of Mannheim Charlotte Klonk is Professor in Art History and New Media at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Jens Eder and Charlotte Klonk Part I: Using images: metaphors, processes, affects 1 Images of the world, images of conflict
Ben O'Loughlin 2 Worldmaking frame by frame
Zeynep Devrim Gürsel 3 Working images: Harun Farocki and the operational image
Volker Pantenburg 4 Affective image operations
Jens Eder 5 Method, madness, and montage: assemblages of images and the production of knowledge
W.J.T. Mitchell Part II: Images in warfare, insurgency and counterinsurgency 6 Image operations: refracting control from virtual reality to the digital battlefield
Timothy Lenoir and Luke Caldwell 7 Sensorship: the seen unseen of drone warfare
Tom Holert 8 Images that last? Iraq videos from YouTube to WikiLeaks
Christian Christensen 9 Images of terror
Charlotte Klonk 10 The making and gendering of a martyr: images of female suicide bombers in the Middle East
Verena Straub 11 Photographic archives and archival entities
Ariella Azoulay Part III: Image activism and political movements 12 Exposing the invisible: visual investigation and conflict
Stephanie Hankey and Marek Tuszynski 13 Human rights in an age of distant witnesses: remixed lives, reincarnated images and live
streamed co
presence
Sam Gregory 14 The hunger striker: a case for embodied visuality
Bishnupriya Ghosh 15 The visual commons: counter
power in photography from slavery to Occupy Wall Street
Nicholas Mirzoeff Afterword
James Elkins Index