ESTETISK SEMINAR MED WJT MITCHELL. On IMAGE, SPACE, REVOLUTION: THE ARTS OF OCCUPATION
onsdag 28. mars 2012 kl. 17:00 på Universitetet i Oslo, Helga Engs Hus (UV)
WJT Mitchell: Image, Space, Revolution: The Arts of Occupation.
An attempt to survey the role of images and media in the global revolutions of 2011 insofar as they involved the occupation of iconic public spaces from Tahrir Square to Zucotti Park in New York.
28 mars, kl 17-19, Aud 2 Helga Engs Hus
W. J. T. Mitchell is Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago. He is editor of the interdisciplinary journal, Critical Inquiry, a quarterly devoted to critical theory in the arts and human sciences. A scholar and theorist of media, visual art, and literature, Mitchell is associated with the emergent fields of visual culture and iconology (the study of images across the media). He is known especially for his work on the relations of visual and verbal representations in the context of social and political issues. His publications include: What Do Pictures Want? (2005); The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon (1998); Picture Theory (1994); Art and the Public Sphere (1993); Landscape and Power (1992); Iconology (1987); The Language of Images (1980); On Narrative (1981); and The Politics of Interpretation (1984). His most recent book is Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present (2011).