In "Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation," Edward Said's long-time friends and collaborators continue their dialogue with Said where they had left off following his death in the fall of 2003. The essays, imagining and recalling the cadences of Said's conversation, take various forms, including elaborations on his ideas, applications of his thought to new problems, and recollections of the indescribable electricity that made conversation with him intense and memorable. This lively, personal tone is a direct result of editors Homi Bhabha and W. J. T. Mitchell urging contributors to...
In "Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation," Edward Said's long-time friends and collaborators continue their dialogue with Said where they had left...
In "Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation," Edward Said's long-time friends and collaborators continue their dialogue with Said where they had left off following his death in the fall of 2003. The essays, imagining and recalling the cadences of Said's conversation, take various forms, including elaborations on his ideas, applications of his thought to new problems, and recollections of the indescribable electricity that made conversation with him intense and memorable. This lively, personal tone is a direct result of editors Homi Bhabha and W. J. T. Mitchell urging contributors to...
In "Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation," Edward Said's long-time friends and collaborators continue their dialogue with Said where they had left...
The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as an instrument of cultural force, a central tool in the creation of national and social identities. This second edition adds not only a new preface, but five new essays from Edward Said, W. J. T. Mitchell, Jonathan Bordo, Michael Taussig, and Robert Pogue Harrison-extending the scope of the book in remarkable ways. "
The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to be ...
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 need to reckon with images not just as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings with desires, needs, appetites, demands, and drives of their own. What Do Pictures Want? explores this idea and highlights Mitchell's innovative and profoundly influential thinking on...
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 al...
The rubric The Late Derrida, with all puns and ambiguities cheerfully intended, points to the late work of Jacques Derrida, the vast outpouring of new writing by and about him in the period roughly from 1994 to 2004. In this period Derrida published more than he had produced during his entire career up to that point. At the same time, this volume deconstructs the whole question of lateness and the usefulness of periodization. It calls into question the fact of his turn to politics, law, and ethics and highlights continuities throughout his oeuvre. The scholars included here write of...
The rubric The Late Derrida, with all puns and ambiguities cheerfully intended, points to the late work of Jacques Derrida, the vast outpouring of ...
Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. Critical Terms for Media Studies defines, and at times, redefines, what this new and hybrid area aims to do, illuminating the key concepts behind its liveliest debates and most dynamic topics. Part of a larger conversation that engages culture, technology, and politics, this exciting collection of essays explores our most critical language for dealing with the qualities and modes...
Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a voca...
Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. "Critical Terms for Media Studies" defines, and at times, redefines, what this new and hybrid area aims to do, illuminating the key concepts behind its liveliest debates and most dynamic topics. Part of a larger conversation that engages culture, technology, and politics, this exciting collection of essays explores our most critical language for dealing with the qualities and modes of...
Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a voca...
The phrase "War on Terror" has quietly been retired from official usage, but it persists in the American psyche, and our understanding of it is hardly complete. Nor will it be, W. J. T Mitchell argues, without a grasp of the images that it spawned, and that spawned it.
Exploring the role of verbal and visual images in the War on Terror, Mitchell finds a conflict whose shaky metaphoric and imaginary conception has created its own reality. At the same time, Mitchell locates in the concept of clones and cloning an anxiety about new forms of image-making that has amplified the political...
The phrase "War on Terror" has quietly been retired from official usage, but it persists in the American psyche, and our understanding of it is har...
Was sind Bilder? Wie unterscheiden sie sich von Worten? Was genau sind Bilder heute, in einer Zeit, in der die Macht des Sichtbaren größer scheint als je zuvor und in der der "pictorial turn" den "linguistic turn" abgelöst hat? W. J. T. Mitchell, einer der Pioniere der "Visual Culture Studies", stellt diese Fragen in einer Reihe von bahnbrechenden Aufsätzen, die bereits als Klassiker der bildwissenschaftlichen Forschung gelten. Sie untersuchen das Zusammenspiel des Sichtbaren und des Sagbaren in allen kulturellen Bereichen, von der Literatur über die bildende Kunst bis zu den...
Was sind Bilder? Wie unterscheiden sie sich von Worten? Was genau sind Bilder heute, in einer Zeit, in der die Macht des Sichtbaren größer scheint a...
W.J.T. Mitchell ist eine der wichtigsten Stimmen in der heutigen Diskussion um Wesen und Funktion von Bildern. In seinem jüngsten Buch - dem ersten, das auch in deutscher Sprache erscheint - erkundet der amerikanische Begründer des"iconic turn"das Eigenleben, das Bilder in unserer Kultur führen. Ob es sich um Bilder in Museen oder Bilder in den Medien handelt - sie fordern Reaktionen von uns, sie provozieren und verführen und benehmen sich manchmal so gar nicht wie tote Gegenstände, sondern wie lebendige Wesen mit ihren eigenen Wünschen, Bedürfnissen und Begierden. Mitchells...
W.J.T. Mitchell ist eine der wichtigsten Stimmen in der heutigen Diskussion um Wesen und Funktion von Bildern. In seinem jüngsten Buch - dem ersten, ...