Image operations

A powerful book that provides new interdisciplinary perspective on the functions of still and moving images in political conflict.

Introduction - Jens Eder and Charlotte Klonk
Part I: Using images: metaphors, processes, affects
1 Images of the world, images of conflict - Ben O'Loughlin
2 Worldmaking frame by frame - Zeynep Devrim Gürsel
3 Working images: Harun Farocki and the operational image - Volker Pantenburg
4 Affective image operations - Jens Eder
5 Method, madness, and montage: assemblages of images and the production of knowledge - W.J.T. Mitchell
Part II: Images in warfare, insurgency and counterinsurgency
6 Image operations: refracting control from virtual reality to the digital battlefield - Timothy Lenoir and Luke Caldwell
7 Sensorship: the seen unseen of drone warfare - Tom Holert
8 Images that last? Iraq videos from YouTube to WikiLeaks - Christian Christensen
9 Images of terror - Charlotte Klonk
10 The making and gendering of a martyr: images of female suicide bombers in the Middle East - Verena Straub
11 Photographic archives and archival entities - Ariella Azoulay
Part III: Image activism and political movements
12 Exposing the invisible: visual investigation and conflict - Stephanie Hankey and Marek Tuszynski
13 Human rights in an age of distant witnesses: remixed lives, reincarnated images and live-streamed co-presence - Sam Gregory
14 The hunger striker: a case for embodied visuality - Bishnupriya Ghosh
15 The visual commons: counter-power in photography from slavery to Occupy Wall Street - Nicholas Mirzoeff
Afterword - James Elkins
Index