62400event12882678881475891600<![CDATA["The Right to Look" - By Professor Nicholas Mirzoeff]]>
In this presentation, Professor Mirzoeff opposes the critical study of
visual culture to the notion of “visuality,” the means by which
autocracy imagines history. Against visuality, whose beginning can be
found in plantation slavery, comes the right to look. Visuality uses
certain techniques to form what he calls “complexes of visuality.” In
his talk, Mirzoeff demonstrates the functioning of these techniques in
relation to the strategy of global counterinsurgency that is currently
the doctrine of the U.S. military.
Bio note: Nicholas Mirzoeff
is Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York
University. He is an art historian whose work has been key to the
development of visual cultural studies in the past decade. His books
include the widely read An Introduction to Visual Culture, Watching
Babylon: The War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture, and the forthcoming
The Right to Look: A Counter-History of Visuality.]]>
Professor Nicholas Mirzoeff from New York University will give a talk about his work on visual culture. The talk is part of LCC's Distinguished Speaker Series, 2010-2011.]]>Vinicius D. Navarro, School of Literature, Communication & Culture