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Book SynopsisThis rich and accessible volume maps current debates within the expanded field of image-based, vertical analysis. With contributions from astronauts, artists, architects, sociologists, urbanists, visual culture theorists, geographers, anthropologists and more the book signals new moves in inter and multidisciplinary research on visual-vertical thinking and related practices within the social sciences, humanities and across the arts.
Grounded in socio-visual thinking, Vision and Verticality addresses the emerging shift in the way social scientists move from a sociology of or through images towards a sociology with images. In doing so, this volume illustrates how the sky and atmosphere remain a surprisingly underexplored domain within visual sociology, beyond the framework of drone-related research. Finally, this volume asserts how vertical and atmospherically framed socio-visual analysis is beginning to shape and inform how we see and experience urban spaces, travel, leisure, politics, and environmental challenges through various prisms, including artistic practices, methodological processes, and user-generated content.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Gary Bratchford & Dennis Zuev –Vision & Verticality: A Visual Sociology of the SkySection 1. Experimental and Experiential Approaches to Volume and Atmospheres1. Open-weather – The Open-Weather Feminist Handbook: A Preamble2. Of Carnal Gravity: A Three-voice Conversation, Julie Patarin-Jossec, Jean-François Clervoy and Jeanne More3. Seeing in Verticality: From ‘Vertical Gaze’ to ‘Figuring Out’, Andrea Pavoni and Andrea Brighenti4. Vertical Visualities, Experiences and Inequalities: A Conversation with Stephen Graham, Gary Bratchford, Dennis Zuev, and Stephen GrahamSection 2. Sensing, Seeing, and Monitoring from Above5. Repositioning Drone Sensing in Landscape Urbanism & Planning, Paul Cureton & Ole Jensen6. Vocabularies of Drone Sensing, Anna Jackman7. Viewing from Where? Satellite Imaging and the Politics of Space Technology: Unpacking Depravity’s Rainbow, Lewis Bush8. The Algorithmic Apparatus of Neocolonialism: Counter-Operational Practices and the Future of Aerial Surveillance, Anthony DowneySection 3: Assembling and Representing: Artistic Perspectives on Volume, Vertigo and Falling9. Wassily Kandinsky and the Aerial Gaze: Re-considering the Punctual, Linear, and Planar Forces Inherent in the Politics of Visibility of Civil Drones, Francisco Klauser10. After Falling Away: Eeflections on a Vertiginous Art Exhibition, Davide Deriu11. Towards a Typology of Imaginary Skyscrapers, Ana Aragão12. Higher Returns, David KendallSection 4: Mapping Cultural Landscapes, Vertically13. Epistemology of the ‘laje' – Notes From Favela Rooftops, Bianca Freire-Medeiros & Leo Name14. Rio’s ‘Natural Born Monument:’ Visual Imaginaries of The Sugarloaf Mountain, Jorge De La Barre15. Elemental Monsters: Using the Wind to Document Protests Against Wind Farms in Tinos, Greece, Adam Fish16. Revitalization and Touristification: the Vertical Cultural Landscape of Dacha Community in Siberia, Artem Yakovlev and Dennis Zuev
