CS351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Queer Theory, Postcolonialism, Critical Legal Studies
Document Summary
The ongoing assault on humanities education by means of free-escalation, widespread closure of programs and such extreme steps as the legislative outlaws of ethnic studies in. Arizona, has pushed matters beyond the erosion of budgets and positions to a paradigm shift. Perhaps the most speci c use of visual culture as a concept comes as an umbrella for contemporary art and visual arts production. Visuality is thus a regime of visualizations, not images, as conjured by the autocratic leader, whether the plantation overseer, the general, the colonial governor, the racist dictator, or the present day authoritarian leader. It is also the attribute of bureaucratic and structured regimes, from the imperial administration of vast swathes of the worlds surface in the nineteenth century of the u. s led military global counterinsurgency of today. The critique of visuality is also a counterpoint to the now-dominant narrative of the panopticon.
