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Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture

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Editors:
  1. Asbjørn Grønstad

    1. University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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  2. Øyvind Vågnes

    1. University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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  • Constitutes the first book-length study on the subject of invisibility

  • Provides a strongly interdisciplinary investigation, involving contributions from art history, media studies, literature, cultural studies, and philosophy

  • Explores the complex intersections between technology, representation, aesthetics, identity, and politics

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Invisibility Matters

    • Asbjørn Grønstad, Øyvind Vågnes
    Pages 1-15

  3. Archaeologists of the Off-Screen: Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen

    • Henrik Gustafsson
    Pages 17-45

  4. Literary Device: Invisible Light and a Photo of Photography

    • Ari Laskin
    Pages 47-73

  5. Tomas van Houtryve’s Packing Heat and the Culture of Surveillance

    • Øyvind Vågnes
    Pages 75-90

  6. Neurointerfaces, Mental Imagery and Sensory Translation in Art and Science in the Digital Age

    • Ksenia Fedorova
    Pages 91-109

  7. Invisibility and the Ethics of Erasure: Khaled Barakeh’s The Untitled Images

    • Asbjørn Grønstad
    Pages 111-125

  8. Neither Visible Nor Hidden: The Structuring of the Sensible

    • Carolina Cambre
    Pages 127-147

  9. Reading the Invisible in Marjane Satrapi’s Graphic Memoir Embroideries

    • Jena Habegger-Conti
    Pages 149-164

  10. Hearing and Seeing the In/Visible: Anne Charlotte Robertson’s Five Year Diary

    • Anjo-marí Gouws
    Pages 165-178

  11. Power in Partial Invisibility: Reframing Positions on Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Photography

    • Lucy Bowditch
    Pages 179-199

  12. Materiality of the Invisible in David Wilson’s “California Letters”

    • Lene M. Johannessen
    Pages 201-219

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 221-232
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About this book

The essays in Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture contribute pioneering and revelatory insights into the phenomenon of invisibility, forging new and multi-disciplinary approaches at the intersection of aesthetics, technology, representation and politics. Importantly, they acknowledge the complex interaction between invisibility and its opposite, visibility, arguing that the one cannot be fully grasped without the other. Considering these entanglements across different media forms, the chapters reveal that the invisible affects many cultural domains, from digital communication and operative images to the activism of social movements, as well as to identity, race, gender and class issues. Whether the subject is comic books, photographic provocations, biometric and brainwave sensing technologies, letters, or a cinematic diary, the analyses in this book engage critically and theoretically with the topic of invisibility and thus represent the first scholarly study to identify its importance for the field of visual culture.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Asbjørn Grønstad, Øyvind Vågnes

About the editors

Asbjørn Grønstad is Professor of Visual Culture in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway. He is founding director of the Nomadikon Center for Visual Culture and is the author or editor of ten books, the most recent of which is the monograph Film and the Ethical Imagination (Palgrave, 2016). 

Øyvind Vågnes is Professor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is a journal editor for the Journal of Visual Culture and his monograph Zaprudered: The Kennedy Assassination Film in Visual Culture (2011) received an honourable mention at the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in 2012. 




Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture

  • Editors: Asbjørn Grønstad, Øyvind Vågnes

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16291-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16290-0Published: 14 June 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16293-1Published: 15 August 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16291-7Published: 01 June 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 232

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Arts, Aesthetics

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