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Picture This: Literary Theory and the Study of Visual Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Visual culture studies has developed around the idea that postmodernity is dominated by the visual representation of meaning, and that this marks its fundamental break with a modernity dominated by textuality. |
 | | A deconstructive analysis of the visual and the textual, for example, reveals that the two terms depend upon one another for their meaning in a structure of differences that are largely illusory when viewed in the context of everyday experience, where visual objects are read and textual objects are visualized. |
 | | Visual culture, conceptualized from this point of view, corresponds to life onscreen in the sense Mirzoeff is invoking, that form of the “pictorial” that morphed in the late modern and postmodern periods into the hyperrepresentational, simulated, virtual modes of image production that increasingly command our attention and disseminate knowledge in our culture. |
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