{"product_id":"the-right-to-look-9780822349181","title":"The Right to Look","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis sweeping comparative decolonial framework for visual culture studies, a field the author helped shape, casts modernity as a contest between visuality and countervisuality, or the right to look.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[V]isual studies will no longer be the same before and after this book. . . . Mirzoeff's work does it all: offering new perspectives, blurring the boundaries between disciplines, disclosing what had been hidden, and shooting trouble.” - Jan Baetens, \u003ci\u003eLeonardo Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Right to Look\u003c\/i\u003e offers the fledgling discipline, and the thriving interdiscipline [of visual studies], a historical narrative against which it must now measure its claims to grasp the present. It marks a coming of age that has brought cultural studies past the variability and the enchantments of its postmodern moment. It highlights the need for responsibility toward actual pasts, and toward the actual demands of contemporary realities. These are significant achievements.” - Terry Smith, \u003ci\u003ePublic Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This volume advances and enhances Mirzoeff's reputation as one of the intellectual leaders of visual culture studies. Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.” - C. J. Lamb,\u003ci\u003e Choice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Right to Look\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant book—original, ambitious, and constantly surprising. Nicholas Mirzoeff is at the center of the most advanced thinking in visual culture studies, and \u003ci\u003eThe Right to Look\u003c\/i\u003e is a very important project within the field. It is a genuinely postcolonial text that places visual culture studies on broad historical and political footing for the first time.”—\u003cb\u003eTerry Smith\u003c\/b\u003e, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eAntinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Nicholas Mirzoeff’s \u003ci\u003eThe Right to Look\u003c\/i\u003e is a passionate and magisterial intervention in the field of visual culture studies. Emphatically arguing that the human visual experience, with all its technical prostheses and metaphorical extensions, is a fundamentally ethical and political domain, Mirzoeff ranges over amazingly varied historical and geographical terrain. From the administration of the colonial plantation to missionary and military adventurism, to drone attacks and counterinsurgency flowcharts, to the latest tactics of spectacle and surveillance, everything is analyzed with a sure sense of the crucial detail and the revelatory anecdote. This is a brilliant contribution to visual culture studies, one that sets a very high standard for this emergent discipline.”—\u003cb\u003eW. J. T. Mitchell\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eCloning Terror: The War of Images, 9\/11 to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhat Do Pictures Want?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Right to Look\u003c\/i\u003e offers the fledgling discipline, and the thriving interdiscipline [of visual studies], a historical narrative against which it must now measure its claims to grasp the present. It marks a coming of age that has brought cultural studies past the variability and the enchantments of its postmodern moment. It highlights the need for responsibility toward actual pasts, and toward the actual demands of contemporary realities. These are significant achievements.” -- Terry Smith * Public Books *\u003cbr\u003e“[V]isual studies will no longer be the same before and after this book. . . . Mirzoeff's work does it all: offering new perspectives, blurring the boundaries between disciplines, disclosing what had been hidden, and shooting trouble.” -- Jan Baetens * Leonardo Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e“[T]his monograph functions as an important historiographical intervention, revealing how the field of the visual has been constituted as modernity’s central epistemic field. Providing detailed historical analysis, this book is a valuable and important addition to the emergent field of visual cultural studies as well as to visual anthropologists seeking to understand and teach how the visual methods they deploy or theorize are circumscribed within a larger historical context of the visual.” -- Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan * Visual Anthropology Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations ix\u003cbr\u003e Preface. Ineluctable Visualities xiii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xvii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. The Right to Look, or, How to Think With and Against Visuality 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eVisualizing Visuality\u003c\/i\u003e 35\u003cbr\u003e 1. Oversight: The Ordering of Slavery 48\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Modern Imaginary: Anti-Slavery Revolutions and the Right to Existence 77\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePuerto Rican Counterpoint I\u003c\/i\u003e 117\u003cbr\u003e 3. Visuality: Authority and War 123\u003cbr\u003e 4. Abolition Realism: Reality, Realisms, and Revolution 155\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePuerto Rican Counterpoint II\u003c\/i\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e 5. Imperial Visuality and Countervisuality, Ancient and Modern 196\u003cbr\u003e 6. Anti-Fascist Neorealisms: North-South and the Permanent Battle for Algiers 232\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMexican-Spanish Counterpoint\u003c\/i\u003e 271\u003cbr\u003e 7. Global Counterinsurgency and the Crisis of Visuality 277\u003cbr\u003e Notes 311\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 343\u003cbr\u003e Index 373","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406064296279,"sku":"9780822349181","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822349181.jpg?v=1730494404","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-right-to-look-9780822349181","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}