[Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of visibility/invisibility

MC Cambre mcambre at ualberta.ca
Thu Sep 8 06:30:51 PDT 2016 

This is a great initiative and I am happy to throw something in. My only
flag is that it is an enormous set of fields, or zone at the intersection
of a number of fields.

*Some important contributions/interventions:*

   - Invisibility and “the right to look” (Mirzoeff): [politics]
   - Invisibility and “the distribution of the sensible” (First Levinas &
   then Rancière) [philosophy]
   - Barbara Maria Stafford's notion of an aesthetic of “the visible
   invisible” [philosophy]
   - Invisibility as a precondition for transparency. The condition of
   sight (Merleau-Ponty) from "The Phenomenology of Perception" and of course
   "The Visible and the Invisible"[philosophy]
   - Hans Belting's work on the image [art history]
   - Georges Didi-Huberman on the "visible, visual and virtual" [visual
   studies]
   - Rob Shields on "visualicity" [sociology]
   - Elkins edited book on "visual literacy" has a lot of key essays from
   Mitchell and Sherwin and others.[social sciences & art history]
   - Tony Jappy's "Introduction to Visual Semiotics" in the Advances in
   Semiotics series with Bloomsbury [methods & philosophy]
   - My own book "The semiotics of Che Guevara: Affective Gateways" centres
   on this visible/invisible dynaming, and is in the same Semiotics series
   with Bloomsbury [methods & philosophy]
   -




On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Steffen Albrecht <steffen.albrecht at berlin.de
> wrote:

> Dear Daniel,
>
> Though it's been published some years ago, I'd highly recommend
>
> Brighenti, Andrea (2007): Visibility. A category for the social sciences.
> In: Current Sociology 55(3), pp. 323-342
>
> with regard to the category
>
> ..."classical" approaches and authors that do NOT explicitly talk about
> today's political (social) media contexts, but which you would consider
> highly applicable to understand such phenomena.
>
> Best,
> Steffen
>
> ----- ursprüngliche Nachricht ---------
>
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of
> visibility/invisibility
> Date: Do 08 Sep 2016 13:09:34 CEST
> From: Ansgar Koene<Ansgar.Koene at nottingham.ac.uk>
> To: Daniel Kunzelmann<kunzelmann.daniel at yahoo.de>,
> air-l at listserv.aoir.org<air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
>
> Hi Daniel,
>    sounds like a really interesting topic to assemble a reading list for.
> One article I recently read that could fit in the invisible category,
> under 'influence of algorithms' would be
> Zeynep Tufekci, “Algorithmic Harms beyond Facebook and Google: Emergent
> Challenges of Computational Agency”, J. on Telecomm. & High Tech. L., 203,
> 2015
>
> Cheers,
> Ansgar
>
> Dr. Ansgar Koene
> Senior Research Fellow: Horizon Policy Impact, CaSMa & UnBias
> Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute
> University of Nottingham
> http://casma.wp.horizon.ac.uk/
> http://unbias.wp.horizon.ac.uk/
> http://www.horizon.ac.uk/
> https://sites.google.com/site/arkoene/
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Air-L [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Daniel
> Kunzelmann [kunzelmann.daniel at yahoo.de]
> Sent: 08 September 2016 10:55
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of
> visibility/invisibility
>
> Dear all,
>
> I felt like starting another list of literature :) Here is the
> question/thesis at stake: We live in a hyper-mediated world, in which
> the *speed and sheer amount of media posts *(Facebook, your favorite
> newspapers, Twitter, blogs, you name it...) suggest that political
> impact, relevance and importance is connected to "being visible" or
> "making something visible". Vice versa, *if something is **not
> visible**in today's social-media-democracy it does not exist, thus has
> no meaning, thus has no political power/impact/relevance**.*
>
> Yet, I feel - and so far it's only really a feeling - that *these
> invisible spaces and actions enable, generate and allocate as much
> political power as their visible twins.* Against the backdrop of
> "social-media-everywhere" and the *dominant daily narrative of the
> visible* (which we all experience when we look at our smartphone), I'm
> now looking for *authors and concepts that explore/reflect/challenge/*
>
> - that either the *politics of the visible*
> - or the *politics of the invisible*
> - or even the *relationship between visibility and invisibility* with
> regards to political power.
>
> It might be *authors and concepts that already reflect on today's
> (hyper) social media worlds**, as well as "classical" approaches on
> visibility/invisibility of power.* To give you two examples:
>
> Thinking about today's social media, we could have a closer look at the
> power of images (e.g. a meme) on our interfaces (visible) or at the
> algorithmic structures that sort and "deliver" these images (invisible).
> Both layers of power are real, in the sense that they affect us in our
> daily live, but one is visible and one is invisible. And of course, they
> are certainly connected.
>
> Same goes for something that existed before social media, let's say
> party politics. There have always been official press releases and
> interviews about how well e.g. a party congress went and what wonderful
> values this party now stands for (transparency, inclusion, etc.), but at
> the same time, at the congress in question, there also existed back-room
> meetings and private phone calls to influence internal party currents
> (opacity, exclusion, etc.). Again, both spaces and actions are real, in
> the sense that they have power effects on the party's members and/or
> possible voters, but one (media) space is visible and the other one
> invisible. And, here too, both layers work together perfectly.
>
> So, anyone wants to share their must-read with me?
>
> *...on "new" Cultural and Social Anthropological approaches and authors
> that already reflect on the politics of visibility/invisibility against
> today's backdrop of "social-media-everywhere". **
> **
> **...and/or "classical" ***approaches and authors* that do NOT
> explicitly talk about today's political (social) media contexts, but
> which you would consider highly applicable to understand such phenomena.
>
> *Either directly drop your recommendations in here:
> *https://danielderkunzelmann.piratenpad.de/airl-mediaoverloa
> d-politics-visibility-invisibility*
> or reply to this message via the list or a pm :)*
> *
> Of course, when the literature list is done, I will be sharing it with
> all of you!
>
> kind regards,
> Daniel
>
> *Daniel Kunzelmann,
> Ph.D.c / Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich / Institute of Cultural
> Anthropology/European Ethnology
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