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Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things
— philosopher, historian and critic often identified as a post-structuralist interested in destabilizing meaning, undermining theoretical systems of universality, and studying ways in which kn… more →
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Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things
wrote 1 year ago: — philosopher, historian and critic often identified as a post-structuralist interested in d … more →
Donald Norman The Design of Everyday Things
wrote 1 year ago: Working from the assumption that design is an act of communication between designer and user and t … more →
Elkins, James -- Visual Studies
wrote 1 year ago: Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction James Elkins (art histo … more →
Urban, Greg. Metaculture: How Cultures Move through the World
wrote 1 year ago: In this text, Urban uses the framework of circulation to investigate the ways in which culture is … more →
Van Leeuwen, Theo -- Introducing Social Semiotics
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wrote 1 year ago: Theo Van Leeuwen Introducing Social Semiotics In this introduction to social semiotics, Van Leeuw … more →
Stafford, Barbara Maria -- Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting
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wrote 1 year ago: In Visual Analogy, Stafford attempts to resuscitate the visual method of analogy and encourage her p … more →
On Perspective...Elkins, Panofsky, Crary
wrote 1 year ago: Panofsky, Erwin Perspective as Symbolic Form In Perspective as Symbolic Form, Panofsky traces the … more →
Derrida, Jacques. Of Grammatology (1967
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wrote 1 year ago: Notes from Spivak’s preface to Of Grammatology: In the preface to Derrida’s Of Grammatology, Spi … more →
McLuhan, Marshall -- Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
wrote 1 year ago: In the first 70 pages of Understanding Media, McLuhan theorizes about the cultural implications of t … more →
Taylor, Mark C. -- Hiding
wrote 1 year ago: –moves between theology, literature, literary criticism, art, architecture, biochemistry, ne … more →
Margaret Dikovitskaya -- Visual Culture: The Study of the Visual after the Cultural Turn
wrote 1 year ago: As the first line of this text states, “Visual Culture: The Study of the Visual after the Cultu … more →
Latour, Bruno
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wrote 1 year ago: Latour, Bruno Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory In his introduct … more →
Kress, Gunther and Theo Van Leeuwen -- Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design
wrote 1 year ago: In this text, K and L inventorize established compositional structures or conventions of various … more →
Ihde, Don
wrote 1 year ago: Ihde, Don Technology and the Lifeworld Written at the heart of the intellectual push toward mult … more →
Rose, Gillian -- Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials
wrote 1 year ago: In this text designed for students study visual culture from an interdisciplinary perspective, Gi … more →
WJT Mitchell--Iconology: Image, Text, and Ideology
wrote 1 year ago: In Iconology, Mitchell explores the ways in which the idea of imagery in relation to notions of pict … more →
WJT Mitchell -- Picture Theory
wrote 1 year ago: WJT Mitchell, Picture Theory In analyzing the “pictorial turn” in his book Picture Theory, Mitchel … more →
WJT Mitchell, Want Pictures Want?
wrote 1 year ago: Mitchell, WJT What Do Pictures Want? In What Do Pictures Want?, Mitchell challenges the reader to … more →
Goodman, Nelson. Ways of Worldmaking
wrote 1 year ago: In this book, Goodman joins the longstanding philosophical conversations about truth and reality, … more →
