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| List of figures | |
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| Notes on contributors | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction: For Critical Visuality Studies | |
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| Expansions | |
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| There are no Visual Media | |
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| The (In) Human Spatial Condition: A Visual Essay | |
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| Mapping Non-Conformity: Post-Bubble Urban Strategies | |
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| X-Reality: Interview with the Virtual Cannibal | |
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| On Software, or the Persistence of Visual Knowledge | |
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| Notes on the Photographic Image | |
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| Queer Faces: Photography and Subcultural Lives | |
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| Currents of Worldmaking in Contemporary Art | |
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| Sublimated with Mineral Fury: Prelim Notes on Sounding Pandemonium Asia | |
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| The Sea and the Land: Biopower and Visuality from Slavery to Katrina | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Globalization, war and visual economy | |
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| War and violence | |
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| The Archaeology of Violence: The King's Head | |
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| On the Actuarial Gaze: From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib | |
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| American Military Imaginaries and Iraqi Cities | |
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| Zeroing In: Overheard Imagery, Infrastructure Ruins, and Datalands in Afghanistan and Iraq | |
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| What Greg Roberts Saw: Visuality, Intelligibility, and Sovereignty - 36,000km over the Equator | |
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| Media and Martyrdom | |
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| Live True Life or Die Trying | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Attention and visualizing economy | |
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| Kino-I, Kino-World: Notes on the Cinematic Mode of Production | |
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| On Virtuosity | |
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| Faking Globalization | |
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| Creativity and the Problem of Free Labor | |
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| It's Easier to Imagine the End of the World than the End of Capitalism | |
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| Do it Yourself Geo-Politics | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The body, coloniality and visuality | |
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| Bodies and minds | |
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| Optics | |
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| Blindness and Visual Culture: An Eye Witness Account | |
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| Reduplicative Desires | |
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| The Persistence of Vision | |
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| The Body and/in Representation | |
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| Forever Modern: Mami Wata Visual Culture and History in Africa | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Histories and memories | |
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| The Mobilized and Virtual Gaze in Modernity: Fl�neur/Fl�neuse | |
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| Tourism and "Sacred Ground": The Space of Ground Zero | |
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| Maps, Mother/Goddesses, and Martyroom in Modern India | |
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| Museums in Late Democracies | |
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| The Fact of Blackness | |
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| The Case of Blackness | |
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| Further reading | |
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| (Post/De/Neo)colonial visualities | |
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| Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order | |
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| From the Colonial Harem | |
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| Vodun Art, Social History and the Slave Trade | |
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| Between Cult and Culture: Bamiyan, Islamic Iconoclasm and the Museum | |
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| The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition | |
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| Urban Warfare: Walking Through Walls | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Media and mediations | |
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| U.S. Operating Systems at Midcentury: The Intertwining of Race and Unix | |
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| Rethinking the Digital Age | |
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| The Unworkable Interface | |
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| On the Superiority of the Analog | |
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| Digital Racial Formations and Networked Images of the Body | |
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| Imagination, Multimodality and Embodied Interaction: A Discussion of Sound and Movement in two Cases of Laboratory and Clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Index | |