... solidarity, filiality, and freedom; the forces and fears of normative claims; the definition of an image; and the place of the flesh in a critical Marxism, among others. This is the second conversation in a series initiated by Salma Shamel (PhD candidate at New York University) with anthropologists...

... Weil, “The Iliad, or the Poem of Force” Fight, rape, war, pillage, burn. Filmic images of death and carnage are pornography for the military man. — Anthony Swofford, Jarhead The scandal of torture in the war on terror has diminished noticeably since it first erupted...

... . 1986 . The Movement-Image . Vol. 1 of Cinema . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Deleuze Gilles . 1989 . The Time-Image . Vol. 2 of Cinema . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Eagleton Terry . 2001 . On Evil . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press...

...Mitja Velikonja Abstract This article deals with mostly negative ideological images of refugees, as they erupted in political graffiti and street art (stickers, stencils, various inscriptions) in Slovenia during the so-called refugee crisis from the fall of 2015 on. Its basic questions are three...

...Leila Whitley Abstract What do photographs of small boats crossing the Mediterranean construct as they circulate as privileged signifiers of the 2015 “migrant crisis”? While it is sometimes assumed that these images mobilize sympathy and, perhaps, intervention, this article queries how one...

...Fatimah Tuggar Duke University Press 2002 Images Fatimah Tuggar...

... Is.” This essay was written collaboratively as part of a book sprint. See “How This Text Was Written” (in this issue) for more information on the process. The materiality of immateriality as an algorithm of world oppression. Yeah, that’s it, the goddamned visual. The calculus of the image — that’s what...

...Liam Connell This essay examines a series of visual representations of illegalized migration in order to consider how they respond to the presence of labor within global systems of economic exchange. Through an examination of the aesthetic qualities of these images it suggests that the worker’s...

...Tina M. Campt How do we engage a contemporary visual archive of blackness that is saturated by the proliferation and mass circulation of images of violence, antiblackness, and premature death? This article explores the labor required by visual enactments of black precarity in the work of filmmaker...

...Bakirathi Mani In Geometric Landscapes and the Spectacle of Force , the Pakistani artist Seher Shah works with archival images of the 1903 Delhi Durbar and contemporary images of the U.S. “war on terror.” This essay examines how Shah's digital print binds together theaters of U.S. and British...

...‐twentieth‐century ontology of the digital image in these contemporary technologies. While CNNs are multidimensional, their ontology flattens distinctions between background and foreground, between subjects and objects, and even the relations established among the categories of information used to organize...

... firmly grounded within it? In early-twentieth-century Germany, one important site where this subject emerges is through the medium of photography—specifically, black German family photography. Often considered one of the most mundane forms of photographic imaging, family photos function as a complex site...

...Jill Lane This essay analyzes the figure of the “smoking habanera”—a term I use to describe the sexualized image of a black Cuban woman smoking a cigar, usually wearing a headdress and revealing clothing, whose latest iteration is found among the plethora of small clay figurines on sale...

...Patrick Deer The embrace of the city in ruins was a familiar rallying cry of punk music. From Public Image Limited’s evocation of an urban subject murdered in the countryside while “the cassette played poptones,” to the Clash’s raucous calls for “a riot of our own,” to dub-influenced declarations...