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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
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Barthes shares his passionate, in-depth knowledge and understanding of photography in Reflections on Photography as mentioned in this paper, examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death.Abstract:
Barthes shares his passionate, in-depth knowledge and understanding of photography. Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind.read more
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Brutus Jones's Remains: The Case of Jules Bledsoe
TL;DR: The role of Brutus Jones haunted Bledsoe throughout his career, from his rise to stardom as an opera singer to his untimely death at the age of forty-three.
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Sensing Through White Gloves: On Congolese Objects in Swedish Sceneries
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss collectibles acquired by Swedish missionaries and military officers active within the ill-reputed Congo Free State (1885-1908) and discuss the ways in which artifacts have been selected, joined and charged with new functions and meanings on their voyage between hands, narratives and genres.
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"You Don't So Much Watch It As Download It": Conceptualizations of Digital Spectatorship
TL;DR: The authors examines the ways in which public discourse conceived spectatorship of digital cinema in the United States in the late 1990s and finds that there is a shared tendency to conceptualize digital spectatorship according to a historically specific notion of transmission that mobilizes the concepts of intersubjectivity, embodiment, and immediacy.
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What is, and what might be, learned from images shared during Twitter conversations among professionals?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of the theoretical basis for Twitter and discuss the relationship between difference and desire in the context of machiniques, desire, and subjects, including lines of articulation and flight.