Class Visual Culture

Since the 1980s, the notion of visual culture has been imposed. Superficially, visual culture would be concerned with the objects-products of optical machines, such as photography, video, television, film, graphic and digital images, etc. But this mere enumeration reveals that visual culture is first and foremost a new problem. In fact, following the convergence operated by digital, the way we perceived and analyzed images, separately or in genres, such as photography or cinema, video, etc., changed. It is a process that articulates machines, devices, images and bodies in complex apparatuses that are an essential part of the constitution of experience.

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1. Introduction: What is visual culture? The contemporary rehabilitation of the visual and the birth of a discipline Visual culture as a problem and its epistemological nature Visual Literacy 2. Modern optical regimes Reproducibility and multiplication: the explosion of images From the optical unconscious to the re-equipment of the human sensorium: the cine-eye and the photogeny of the imponderable Modernity and the problem of the observer: the disciplinary field of vision 3. The political economy of images Las Meninas as a case study (Foucault) Fetishization and commodification in the spectacle society From simulacra to the new iconoclasm 4. Global Images The first exterior images of the Earth and universalism Telematics and image cinematism View global 5. The post-history of technical images Poor images, circulationism and post-internet culture Operational imaging and posthuman photography Machine vision in the era of machine learning

Use of materials from popular culture (cinema, comics, video clips, memes, etc.) as case studies and theoretical problematization.

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