"The role of this book is to consider the intersection between visual cultures and the most significant developments in critical theory over the last fifty years. This includes issues and concepts from psychoanalysis, philosophy, cultural theory, postmodernism, feminism, Queer theory, gender studies, and narrative theory. Visual Cultures and Critical Theory aims to provide an interplay between the image and recent developments in the humanities." "Visual Cultures and Critical Theory will provide students with a clear guide for understanding ideas of critical theory through the visual."--BOOK JACKET.

Acknowledgements

vii

A Note on Images

viii

Hyperlinks

ix

Introduction

xi

1 Investing in power and the body: Foucault and the visual

1

(21)

INVESTING POWER IN THE IMAGE

1

(9)

Questioning the status of the individual: struggles of power

2

(5)

Kant and Foucault: investing the power

7

(1)

The image: the invitation

8

(1)

The subject: the refusal

9

(1)

THIS IS NOT A BODY: POWERFUL AND SICK BODIES

10

(12)

Powerful bodies

10

(3)

Sick bodies

13

(1)

Investing power in the imaged body

14

(3)

Constructed senses

17

(5)

2 Seeing the self in the Baroque mirror: Lacan and the visual

22

(21)

The metaphoricity of the mirror

22

(3)

The story of the three prisoners

25

(2)

The reflecting image and the self

27

(1)

St Teresa and the gangsters

28

(4)

Narcissism and the ego

32

(3)

The Baroque rose kiss

35

(2)

The narcissistic erotics of celebrity

37

(6)

3 Transgression, abjection and the body: Kristeva and the visual

43

(21)

ABJECTION

44

(7)

Some terms

45

(1)

The unnameable, phobia and revolt

46

(2)

Revolt

48

(3)

THE BODY

51

(8)

The speaking subject in visual culture

51

(1)

The body and visual culture

52

(2)

The Symbolic order, the speaking subject and the body

54

(1)

Questioning the Symbolic: the defect body

55

(1)

Corps propre: bodies and abject bodies

56

(2)

The unclean

58

(1)

THE SÉMIOTIQUE, THE SYMBOLIC, AND VISUAL CULTURES

59

(5)

Kristeva's chora: strange space

61

(3)

4 From parasitology to spectres: Derrida and the visual

64

(22)

LOCATING DERRIDA

64

(22)

Parasitology/virology

65

(2)

The torment of internal drifting: terrorism

67

(2)

At the limit

69

(7)

On the double

76

(2)

Visibility being eaten away: the spectre and the mirror

78

(8)

5 Spectator, culture, image: Barthes and the visual

86

(23)

THE SPECTATOR AND CULTURE

87

(3)

The canvas: Roland Barthes

87

(3)

SEMIOTICS OF THE IMAGE

90

(7)

Narrative structures

90

(3)

Cultural narratives and the image

93

(2)

Punk as cultural narrative

95

(1)

Re-viewing the canvas: recognizing codes

96

(1)

ACT OF READING AND THE FORMATION OF THE TEXT

97

(3)

The rise of the image

97

(2)

Fragments and codes

99

(1)

READER AND CREATION OF THE IMAGE

100

(9)

The spectator and visual culture

100

(3)

The social order of the image: seeking pleasure

103

(1)

Studium and punctum

104

(5)

6 Invisibility and hallucination: the state of the image in the postmodern world

109

(20)

The image as rhizome

110

(8)

Simulacra

118

(5)

Invisibility and the outcast of the image

123

(6)

Bibliography

129

(4)

Index

133

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