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This book is a collection of essays exploring the social structure of visuality and how it is changing due to globalization. The essays cover a variety of topics, such as art history, literary theory and criticism, cultural studies, film and television studies, intellectual history and sociology. The book was conceived to address a bold question: how is our experience and understanding of vision and visual form changing under pressure from globalization? The essays overlap in their consideration of the tensions between cultures and worlds, political life, everyday social experience, and war. The resulting conversation between the chapters provides a unique opportunity for considering the changing character of visual experience today.
As many observers have noted, the world is becoming increasingly visually mediated, with the rise of computers and the internet being central factors in the emergence of new tools and conventions. Exploring the social structure of visuality, this volume contains a collection of essays by 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). It was conceived to address a bold query: how is 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'. The essays overlap in their considerations of the tensions between cultures and worlds, political life, everyday social experience, and war. The resulting conversation that develops between the chapters touches on points from many visual worlds, and provides a unique opportunity for considering the changing character of visual experience today. This book will attract readers from a wide range of academic disciplines and will especially be valuable as a textbook for graduate and undergraduate courses in visual culture and cultural studies.
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