{"product_id":"image-operations-visual-media-and-political-conflict-9781526107213","title":"Image Operations: Visual Media and Political","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStill and moving images are crucial factors in contemporary political conflicts. They not only have representational, expressive or illustrative functions, but also augment and create significant events. Beyond altering states of mind, they affect bodies and often life or death is at stake. Various forms of image operations are currently performed in the contexts of war, insurgency and activism. Photographs, videos, interactive simulations and other kinds of images steer drones to their targets, train soldiers, terrorise the public, celebrate protest icons, uncover injustices, or call for help. They are often parts of complex agential networks and move across different media and cultural environments. This book is a pioneering interdisciplinary study of the role and function of images in political life. Balancing theoretical reflections with in-depth case studies, it brings together renowned scholars and activists from different fields to offer a multifaceted critical perspective on a crucial aspect of contemporary visual culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction - Jens Eder and Charlotte Klonk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Using images: metaphors, processes, affects\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Images of the world, images of conflict - Ben O'Loughlin\u003cbr\u003e2 Worldmaking frame by frame - Zeynep Devrim Gürsel\u003cbr\u003e3 Working images: Harun Farocki and the operational image - Volker Pantenburg\u003cbr\u003e4 Affective image operations - Jens Eder\u003cbr\u003e5 Method, madness, and montage: assemblages of images and the production of knowledge - W.J.T. Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Images in warfare, insurgency and counterinsurgency \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6 Image operations: refracting control from virtual reality to the digital battlefield - Timothy Lenoir and Luke Caldwell\u003cbr\u003e7 Sensorship: the seen unseen of drone warfare - Tom Holert\u003cbr\u003e8 Images that last? Iraq videos from YouTube to WikiLeaks - Christian Christensen\u003cbr\u003e9 Images of terror - Charlotte Klonk\u003cbr\u003e10 The making and gendering of a martyr: images of female suicide bombers in the Middle East - Verena Straub\u003cbr\u003e11 Photographic archives and archival entities - Ariella Azoulay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Image activism and political movements\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12 Exposing the invisible: visual investigation and conflict - Stephanie Hankey and Marek Tuszynski\u003cbr\u003e13 Human rights in an age of distant witnesses: remixed lives, reincarnated images and live-streamed co-presence - Sam Gregory\u003cbr\u003e14 The hunger striker: a case for embodied visuality - Bishnupriya Ghosh\u003cbr\u003e15 The visual commons: counter-power in photography from slavery to Occupy Wall Street - Nicholas Mirzoeff\u003cbr\u003eAfterword - James Elkins\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040978600279,"sku":"9781526107213","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526107213.jpg?v=1750948473","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/image-operations-visual-media-and-political-conflict-9781526107213","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}