... from above and below, the caption warns, “Turn in your arms. The government will take care of you” ( fig. 1 ). Second Amendment Native American history Indian Peace Commission Civil War stock photography Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

... 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...

... by Duke University Press 2024 archives colonial botany diaspora history of photography speculative fiction In Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind's Arabic-language two-channel video In Vitro (2019), an ecological catastrophe swallows Bethlehem in oil, fire, and smoke. In response, a group...

... of photography as an essential component of the scientific gaze to the utilization of filmic sight in popular cultural representations of difference. Missing Links: Prehistories of the Non/Human Following Charles Darwin’s publication...

... that this is where film comes in because in some sense, photography and film are neither subjective nor objective, which might become the answer. As Cavell said, it’s the world without people. So from a Kantian standpoint, what would film be? I mean, you’re not getting the thing in itself, but you’re not getting...

... in the West as desperate but nonetheless “resourceful and intelligent Americans who have gone through the hell of the drought.” In contrast to the “peon class” origins of the earlier migrants to the region, the more recent diaspora derived from “the best American stock” and thus could be expected, if aided...

... traffic, a substi- tute for smoking, a way of making distances shorter, for stretching time, or even holding up the fluctuations of the stock market, while, at the same time, engaging oneself in prayer. The particular thing about the Byzantine...

... in the manufactured landscape photography of Lewis Baltz and Edward Burtynsky as antonymic indicators of capital’s tendency to disappear itself. According to Toscano, such images reflect an ideology embedded within the natural sciences–derived notion of the Anthropocene. He describes this, following Jameson following...

... with the contraceptive mandate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) if the corporation had sincerely held religious objections. A closely held corporation is one whose stock is primarily owned by five or fewer people. This conjures images of family-owned mom-and-pop operations straight out...

... (2005), Camille Utterback’s Abundance (2007), and Wafaa Bilal’s 3rdi (2010). These artists mobilize an aesthetics of observation and control in their art, often utilizing technologies of surveillance as their medium, such as video from closed-circuit television or photography using a telephoto lens...

... regional, subcultural, dialectical differences into “racial” ones. As the Slavs became the natural slaves, the racially inferior stock for domination and exploitation during the middle ages, as the Tartars came to occupy a similar position in the Italian cities of the late Middle Ages, so at the systemic...

... that they outnumbered the professionals. In Novem- ber 1929, for example, only Figure 5. Arcade photograph, inscribed on verso three weeks after the stock “2-1-1970...

... Americans whose detailed violence and scopic dimensions were spread well beyond the site of their occurrence by means of wire services and photography.10 J. M. Mertins, the local photographer, was commissioned to take a series of images capturing the parade...

... by an anonymity and mobility requir- ing special technological intervention to “appear” in public space. Early twentieth-­century figures drew their visibility from criminal photography and nativist semiotics of Orientalism and anti-­Semitism, midcentury fig...

... Personification is our stock-in-trade. Given this qualification, then, what would a narrative theory of infrastructure look like? To begin an answer that question, I want to consider one of the ur-texts of energy humanities, China Miéville's “Covehithe,” a short story in which sunken oil platforms rise from...

... Vélez throughout the produc- tion of the series. The use in the early 1940s of low-­cost, black and white film by a studio that had pioneered three-­strip Technicolor film in 1935, a scenography exclusively based on stock interiors, and the gradual wors- ening of her film production values placed...