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Author: Nicholas Mirzoeff
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.400kg
ISBN: 9780415343107
ISBN 10: 0415343100
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 04 November 2004
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
<p> A tour de force by perhaps the most inventive--certainly the most wide-ranging-- practitioner of visual culture analysis in the world today. Focusing on the deadly vacuity of the Iraq Invasion, Mirzoeff describes the global media war with an unusually subtle attentiveness to its visual dimensions. More importantly, he situates his response inside a broader picturing of how globalizing capital and resurgent nation states are creating what he calls 'an empire of camps. - Terry Smith, University of Pittsburgh
A tour de force by perhaps the most inventive--certainly the most wide-ranging-- practitioner of visual culture analysis in the world today. Focusing on the deadly vacuity of the Iraq Invasion, Mirzoeff describes the global media war with an unusually subtle attentiveness to its visual dimensions. More importantly, he situates his response inside a broader picturing of how globalizing capital and resurgent nation states are creating what he calls 'an empire of camps.' <br>. <br>-Terry Smith, University of Pittsburgh <br> Watching Babylon is a tour de force of cultural criticism, energetically traversing millennia and modes of discourse to explore the paradoxes of what Mirzoeff terms Babylonian modernity. Exploring a series of interconnected cultural metaphors from internet culture to the network logic of the ancient stele of Naram Sin, from Rastafarianism to reality tv, Mirzoeff lays bare the complex and inexorable interconnections between the US-UK axis of power and Iraq -- interconnections that strategically belie the brute logic of 'difference' currently determining the state of world affairs. <br>. <br>-Amelia Jones, University of Manchester <br> A rich and helpful look at our dark times. It explains how watching Babylon-Iraq is simultaneously constructing and destroying the world we inhabit. <br>. <br>-Chris Hables Gray, University of Great Falls, Montana <br>
Author Information
Nicholas Mirzoeff is Associate Professor of Art at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Bodyscape; Art, Modernity and the Ideal Figure (1995) and An Introduction to Visual Culture (1999), and the editor of The Visual Culture Reader (second edition 2002)
