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Image ScienceIconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics by W. J. T. Mitchell
Category: Reference
Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell’s Iconology helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the humanities. Along with his subsequent Picture Theory and What Do Pictures Want?, Mitchell’s now-classic work introduced such ideas as the pictorial turn, the ima ...Show more
Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience by W. J. T. Mitchell
Category: Reference | Series: TRIOS
Mic check! Mic check! Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In "Occupy", W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take the protestors' lead and perform their own resonant call ...Show more
What Do Pictures Want? Lives And Loves Of Images by W. J. T. Mitchell
Category: Reference
Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray? According to W. J. T. Mitchell, we ...Show more
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