بینایی / مادیت: تصاویر، اشیاء و شیوه‌ها

Two of the key theoretical shifts over the past two decades of critical work have been the 'visual turn' and the 'material turn'. This book argues that these hitherto distinct fields should be understood as in continual dialogue and co-constitution and focuses on reconceptualising the visual as an embodied, material, and often politically-charged realm. This edited volume elaborates this conceptual argument through a series of contemporary case studies, drawn from the disciplines of Architecture, Sociology, Media Studies, Geography and Cultural Studies. The case studies included are paired around four themes: consumption, translation, practice and ethics. As well as exploring the bringing together of visuality and materiality studies, the contributors raise questions of social identity and social critique, and also focus on the ethics of material visualities --Publisher's website Cover 1 Contents 6 List of Figures 8 About the Contributors 10 Acknowledgements 14 1 Visuality/Materiality: Introducing a Manifesto for Practice 16 2 Metallic Modernities in the Space Age: Visualizing the Caribbean, Materializing the Modern 28 3 Visuality, “China Commodity City”, and the Force of Things 54 4 Tristes Entropique: Steel, Ships and Time Images for Late Modernity 74 5 Citizen and Denizen Space: If Walls Could Speak 90 6 Seeing Air 100 7 Intra-actions in Loweswater, Cumbria 124 8 Materialising Vision: Performing a High-rise View 148 9 Melancholic Memorialisation: The Ethical Demands of Grievable Lives 168 10 Indifferent Looks: Visual Inattention and the Composition of Strangers 186 Index 206