Visual worlds

"Visual Worlds was conceived to address a bold query: how, it asks, are our experience and understanding of vision and visual form changing under pressure from the various social, economic and cultural factors that are linked under the term globalization? To consider this question, the volume gathers together a diverse group of internationally renowned artists and scholars from a variety of fields including art history, literary theory and criticism, cultural studies, film and television studies, intellectual history and sociology. At issue for each author is what Lauren Berlant, in the…