Visual Worlds (International Library of Sociology)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
About the Contributors......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Introduction: Visual Cultures and Visual Worlds......Page 14
Part I Cultures......Page 24
Political Culture......Page 26
1 Uncle Sam Needs a Wife: Citizenship and Denegation......Page 28
2 Televisual Popular Politics: Diana and Democracy......Page 58
3. Manufacturing Dissent: Challenges for Activism and Alternative Voices in the Post-9/11 World......Page 70
Visual Culture......Page 82
4. Art at the Intersection of Social Fields......Page 84
5. Heart of Darkness: A Journey into the Dark Matter of the Art World......Page 104
6. Primetime art as Seen on Melrose Place......Page 122
Part II Worlds......Page 126
Social Worlds......Page 128
7. Electronic Habitus: Agit-Prop in an Imaginary World......Page 130
8. Los Angeles as Visual World: Media, Seeing, and the City......Page 152
9. Photography’s Decline into Modernism: In Praise of "Bad" Photographs......Page 164
10. Between the Net and the Deep Blue Sea (Rethinking the Traffic in Photographs)......Page 180
Warring Worlds......Page 212
11. Witness to Surrender......Page 214
12. Under Siege: Mona Hatoum's Art of Displacement......Page 236
13. Mea Culpa: On Residual Culture and the Turn to Ethics......Page 250
Epilogue: Visual Worlds, After 9/11......Page 256
Index......Page 264