For the Right to Look

The revolution intensifies ... read more »

Visuality is not yet fallen but it is falling. A countervisuality is rising. And on the horizon, coming into view, is something else, a reconfiguration of the political and the everyday. I say this because of the current conflict in Libya, not despite it. It is the most significant crisis for visuality since the Second World War. ... read more »

These photographs were sent in response to my last blog post from Tahrir Square. All were sent by Cairo based artist collective and artist HR. [Names removed to protect photographers], who suggested the title “Made in the USA,” derived from the gas canister in the first photograph below.

I’m putting them up as is without commentary: a piece on the impact and problems of “watching” the revolution (whether from the USA or elsewhere) follows on Monday. ... read more »

It’s quite common for authors to report that it was only after finishing a book that they realized what it was really about. In my own case, I never really knew exactly what my 1995 book Bodyscape was about but its readers seemed to work it out for me. WJT Mitchell has told how it was a review of his Picture Theory that generated his next project What Do Pictures Want? In this case, the process has been different. ... read more »