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...
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, ...
According to W. J. T. Mitchell, a "color-blind" post-racial world is neither achievable nor desirable. Against popular claims that race is an outmoded construct that distracts from more important issues, Mitchell contends that race remains essential to our understanding of social reality. Race is not simply something to be seen but is among the fundamental media through which we experience human otherness. Race also makes racism visible and is thus our best weapon against it.
The power of race becomes most apparent at times when pedagogy fails, the lesson is unclear, and everyone has...
According to W. J. T. Mitchell, a "color-blind" post-racial world is neither achievable nor desirable. Against popular claims that race is an outmo...
"Mic check Mic check " Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In "Occupy," W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take the protestors' lead and perform their own resonant call-and-response, playing off of each other in three essays that engage the extraordinary Occupy movement that has swept across the world, examining everything from self-immolations in the Middle East to the G8 crackdown in Chicago to the many protest signs still visible worldwide. "You break...
"Mic check Mic check " Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches ...
Mic check Mic check Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In Occupy, W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take the protestors' lead and perform their own resonant call-and-response, playing off of each other in three essays that engage the extraordinary Occupy movement that has swept across the world, examining everything from self-immolations in the Middle East to the G8 crackdown in Chicago to the many protest signs still visible worldwide....
Mic check Mic check Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing spee...
