Introduction: Visual Cultures and Visual Worlds Part 1: Cultures Political Culture 1. Uncle Sam Needs a Wife: Citizenship and Denegation 2. Televisual Popular Politics: Diana and Democracy 3. Manufacturing Dissent: Challenges for Activism and Alternative Voices in the Post 9/11 World Visual Culture 4. Art at the Intersection of Social Fields 5. Heart of Darkness: A Journey into the Dark Matter of the Art World 6. Primetime Art as Seen on Melrose Place Part 2: Worlds Social Worlds 7. Electronic Habitus Agit-Prop in an Imaginary World 8. Los Angeles as Visual World: Media, Seeing and the City 9. Photography’s Decline into Modernism: In praise of ‘Bad’ Photographs 10. Between the Net and the Deep Blue Sea (Rethinking the Traffic in Photographs) Warring Worlds 11. Witness to Surrender 12. Under Siege: Mona Hatoum’s Art of Displacement 13. Mea Culpa: On Residual Culture and the Turn to Ethics Epilogue Visual Worlds, after 9/11
Biography
John R. Hall is Professor of Sociology at the University of California - Davis and Visiting Professor at the School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh.
Blake Stimson is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Davis.
Lisa Tamiris Becker is Director of the CU Art Museum and the Colorado Collection, Colorado, USA.
