Image Testimonies: Witnessing in Times of Social Media

ISBN-13: 9780367582197 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 182 str.

Kerstin Schankweiler; Verena Straub; Tobias Wendl

Opis

Image Testimonies contributes to the ongoing debate of testimony and witnessing.

Spis treści

Notes on Contributors

1. Image Testimonies: Witnessing in Times of Social Media – Kerstin Schankweiler, Verena Straub, Tobias Wendl







PART I: EPISTEMOLOGIES OF TESTIMONIES












2. Credibility in Crisis: Contradictions of Web Video Witnessing – Sascha Simons














3. Affective Images and the Political Trial – Jonas Bens










IN CONVERSATION: Fearless Filming—Video Footage from Syria since 2011 – Marianna Liosi with Guevara Namer and Amer Matar








PART II: AFFECTIVE WITNESSING









4. "Moroccan Lives Matter": Practices and Politics of Affecting – Kerstin Schankweiler














5. Drone’s-Eye View: Affective Witnessing and Technicities of Perception – Michael Richardson










PART III: SOCIAL MEDIA PRACTICES












6. Photographic Witnessing, the Occupation, and Palestinian Politics – Simon Faulkner











7. Witnessing to Survive: Selfie Videos, Live Mobile Witnessing and Black Necropolitics – Penelope Papailias














8. Eye, Flesh, World: Three Modes of Digital Witnessing – Paul Frosh










PART IV: WITNESSING DESTRUCTION












9. "Living Martyrs": Testifying What is to Come – Verena Straub











10. Testimonies for a New Social Order: The Islamic State’s Iconic Iconoclasm – Christoph Günther, Tom Bioly














11. From Cape Town to Timbuktu: Iconoclastic Testimonies in the Age of Social Media – Tobias Wendl

O autorze

Kerstin Schankweiler is an art historian and postdoctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center Affective Societies at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Verena Straub is an art historian and research associate at the Collaborative Research Center Affective Societies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Tobias Wendl is Professor for the Arts and Visual Cultures of Africa at the Institute of Art History, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.