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The Gaze of the X-Ray An Archive of Violence Shahram Khosravi
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Corporeal matters.
- Corporeal Matters
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- X-ray.
- Colonially.
- Race.
- Gender.
- Violence.
- Technologies.
- Image.
- Photography.
- Body.
- Racism.
- Cultural Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- X-ray.
- Colonially.
- Race.
- Gender.
- Violence.
- Technologies.
- Image.
- Photography.
- Body.
- Racism.
- Cultural Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (195 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Khosravi (ed.), The Gaze of the X-Ray An Archive of Violence
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2024
- Summary:
- Since its invention in the late nineteenth century, the penetrating gaze of the X-ray has changed our vision of the inside of the human body. After we started to see inside ourselves, the relationship between ourselves and our bodies changed forever. As a progression in medical science, X-ray technology was fashioned to maintain and save life. However, as the contributors to this volume show, it has been a device of ruination as well. They visualise the traces and the pattern of violence, practised by the states, racial capitalism, colonial racism and sexism. By juxtaposing different cases across time and space, this collection demonstrates a set of relations between civilization and ruination.
- »[Der Band liefert] einen eindrücklichen Beweis für die Kraft des situierten Wissens und der persönlichen (Körper-)Erfahrung für den wissenschaftlichen Umgang mit medialen Phänomenen und deren biopolitischen Verstrickungen.«
- Contents:
- Cover
- Content
- Wayward X-ray Photos
- The Racialized X-ray Code
- Moving Shades: X-ray Mobility in Southeast Asian Labour Migration
- Suspicious Bodies
- The Ancestral Document
- The Bloodiest Border. A Photo Essay
- In the Dermis of the Body
- A Scarf, a Sewage Pipe and a Settler: On Tactics, X-ray, and the Right to Opacity
- Silent Agony
- A Ray in Five Folds
- Deep Visions and Superficial Desires: X-rays as Science and Popular Culture
- Bothering the X-ray
- Listening to X-ray Images. A Family Album
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Imprint.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Khosravi, Shahram The Gaze of the X-Ray
- ISBN:
- 9783839470480
- 383947048X
- OCLC:
- 1419063503
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