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Blog Prompt 12: Bodies, Difference, & the Politics of Visuality–Course Wrap Up This course was designed as an interdisciplinary inquiry into the relations between power, visual culture, and embodied difference. We have engaged with a plethora of visual cultural productions … Continue reading →

Blog Post 11: Open Topic–Mütter Museum, Freakshows, Colonial Spectacle The topic for this response is open so you can write about a topic that you’re most interested in, but your post must engage in some way with the readings, cultural … Continue reading →

Blog Prompt 10: The Politics of Peering In “Fetal Exposures: Abortion Politics and Optics of Allusion,” Valerie Hartouni writes, “technologies themselves do not peer; they are instruments and relations that facilitate or obstruct, but above all, contruct ‘peering’…likewise ‘peering’ is … Continue reading →

Blog Post 9: Organ Transfer, Biopower, & Economies of Life and Death Drawing on Nancy Scheper-Hughes’s “Commodity Fetishism in Organs Trafficking” (Body and Society 7.2-3, 2001) and Lesley A. Sharp’s “Strange Harvest” (from Strange Harvest: Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies, and … Continue reading →

Blog Prompt 8: Trans Photography, Palinodes, & Medium Specificity Gayle Salamon’s chapter “Transfeminism and the Future of Gender” and Jay Prosser’s chapter “My Second Skin” both offer critical readings of photography that addresses the relation between trans/gender embodiments and the … Continue reading →

Blog Prompt 7: Fashion, Imperialism, & the Post/Colonial Body On this blog, Bodies in Visual Culture, please post a 600-word response to the Threadbared blog entry that you brought in to discuss in class on Thursday October 21. Your response … Continue reading →

Blog Prompt 6: Bill T. Jones, the National Imaginary, and Loss In “Death and the Nation’s Subject,” what does Sharon Holland argue with regards to the ways that blackness has been positioned in relation to the U.S. nation-state? How does … Continue reading →

Blog Prompt 5: Queer Disability Studies and Medical Imaging Technologies 1. What do Robert McRuer and Abbie Wilkerson mean by “homonormativity”? According to their article, how can queer disability studies and activism/art resist it? How might Axis Dance Company’s performances … Continue reading →

Blog Prompt 4: Spectacle, Imperialism, & Visual Nationalism 3. How does Standard Operating Procedure present various photographs (the photos of sunsets, of Rumsfeld, of U.S. soldiers, of abuse and violence)? What is the effect of the white frame and black … Continue reading →

Blog Prompt 3: Digital Bodies & State Surveillance: Hasan Elahi & Monica Enríquez-Enríquez How does Hasan Elahi’s Tracking Transience and Monica Enríquez-Enríquez’s Asilo Queer and/or Objetos de Memoria critique specific U.S. state surveillance practices? How does each artist use specific … Continue reading →