What is Radical Writing in Visual Studies?
<span id="docs-internal-guid-46109b21-7fff-6cfb-89d9-f4361f0c3e63"><span>From its North American beginnings in the late 1980s, its German beginnings in the 1970s, and its prehistory, going back to Derrida, Benjamin, and before, visual studies has taken as part of its mission th...
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doaj-113a5bed625a437e9650983063fe7f1e2020-11-24T21:40:12ZengeScholarship Publishing, University of CaliforniaRefract2640-94292018-11-011110.5070/R71141455https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4259n982What is Radical Writing in Visual Studies?James Elkins0School of the Art Institute of Chicago<span id="docs-internal-guid-46109b21-7fff-6cfb-89d9-f4361f0c3e63"><span>From its North American beginnings in the late 1980s, its German beginnings in the 1970s, and its prehistory, going back to Derrida, Benjamin, and before, visual studies has taken as part of its mission the breaking of disciplinary boundaries. Visual studies has always pictured itself questioning conceptual domains and hegemonic identities, inhabiting margins, rethinking received ideas of cultural inquiry, identity, and place. Refraction, the theme of this issue, is one such boundary formation.</span></span>http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4259n982visual studies, images, writing, historiography, presentism |
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