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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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Cyberbabes: (Self-) representation of women and the virtual male gaze
TL;DR: In this article, a series of encounters resulting from a World Wide Web hypertext project I created in a graduate course on electronic culture are described as a frame to discuss the implications of the operation of the mole gaze in the milieu of the Web, drawing on examples of “cyberbabe” Web sites.
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To hear—to say: the mediating presence of the healing witness
TL;DR: This paper explores Kristeva’s theories of the speaking subject and signification, with its symbolic and semiotic modalities, to understand how a person comes to speak the unspeakable.
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Vibrating the Web: Sonospheric Studies of Media Infrastructure Ecologies
TL;DR: Oliveros et al. as discussed by the authors argue that the mixed registers of a sonospheric investigation are a generative area of research for sound studies scholars, artists and spatial practitioners concerned with the localised impact of global digital material culture.
"It's nice to see old friends again" : family photographs, 'advice', and archival power in a Northern Coast Salish community
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a Table of Table of Contents of the Table of contents of the table of contents, including the following content: Table of content: http://www.tableofcontent.com
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Living Icons: Tracing a Motif in Verbal and Visual Representation from the Second to Fourth Centuries C.E.
TL;DR: The authors traces the development of a deliberate and intense emphasis on visuality in literary representation of the second through fourth centuries C.E. and analyzes a series of interfaces between verbal and visual representation in terms of an active transaction between viewer and viewed to construct meaning and establish and communicate social power.