... television show to feature a gay man as the main character. However, the show has been criticized for suppressing homosexuality on television. Its plotlines and character development failed to enable “queer visuality,” since gay bashing still was central to its rhetorical appeal. Foucault Michel Lipsitz...

...This chapter considers the notion of visuality offered by Deleuze and Guattari, which elaborates and extends what Bergson called the “superposition” of metaphysics and science. This connection is important not only because Deleuze borrows much of his conceptual system from Bergson, but because he...

... the unique critical leverage of art as an alternative way to understand media culture and contemporary visuality....

...This book has explored the role of screen media—film, video, and Internet—in constructing the popular, political, and legal imaginary of genocide and human rights. It has shown that it is not the mere fact of visuality that catalyzes the chain reaction of exposure, revelation, and justice; rather...

... is more renowned as a photographer, with works that range from spreads in fashion magazines and portraits of fellow artists to monotonous copy photographs or oneiric frames that helped define surrealist visuality. The chapter concludes with a description of Man Ray’s object assemblages that have been...

..., looking at the clash of these mandates as a source of crisis for states. It also engages Louise Amoore’s notion that visuality functions as a key sense and affective register to enact sovereign power to “secure the nation.” Through such affective registers, state and media engage the public, and visuality...

...). The chapter argues that the many voices within The Blindness Series, both metaphorical and material, speak to the limitations of visuality. Speaking in many tongues and sometimes in the nonverbal diction of whispers, groans, and cries, these voices speak about what is outside visual...

...This chapter draws on Takashi Murakami’s notion of superflat art in order to reconceptualize and delineate superflat visuality away from Japanese visual traditions, and map it through the transforming landscape of computer technologies and new media—the defining forces in changing our modes...

...This chapter analyzes how visual images of the female body are activated within public and private histories through a description of Zhang Ailing’s photographic work. Ailing embraced the spectral character of photography and other visual media by incorporating a pictorial practice into her...