The Flood of Rights was published on the occasion of the symposium organized by the LUMA Foundation and Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in Arles, France in 2013.

'It is difficult to imagine making claims for human rights without using images. For better or worse, images of protest, evidence, and assertion are the lingua franca of struggles for justice today. And they seem to come in a flood, more and more, day and night. But through which channels does the torrent pass? The Flood of Rights examines the pathways through which these images and ideas circulate—routes that do not merely enable, but actually shape human-rights claims and their conceptual background. What are the technologies and languages that structure the global distribution of humanism and universalism, and how do they leave their mark on these ideas themselves? Which narratives and imageries have proven easier to export and import, and whose interests are at stake in the configurations in question?' - excerpted from website of publisher

Biographies of chapter authors are included.

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REF.KET2
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2017

No of pages

292

ISBN / ISSN

9783956791406

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Overflow (An Introduction)

- Thomas KEENAN

Shapes of the Future: The Internet in the Syrian Civil War

- Sohrab MOHEBBI

The Flood of Claims and the 'Grand Absent': On Behalf of Whom Are You Speaking?

- Eric KLUITENBERG

The Flood of Images and the Performance of Rights: The Changing Function of Photojournalism in the New Media Economy

- David CAMPBELL

Untitled. Green Letters, White Figures, Red Lines

- Olivia CUSTER

Un-war: An Aesthetic Sketch

- Rosalyn DEUTSCHE

Sexuality in the Time of War: Or, How Rape Became a Crime against Humanity

- Sharon SLIWINSKI

Seeing What We Believe or Believing What We See?

- Rony BRAUMAN

Last Rights: The Non-tragic Image and the Law

- Amanda BEECH

The Sight of Blood Does Not Make Me Sick or Afraid

- David LEVINE

Too Much World: Is the Internet Dead?

- Hito STEYERL

Rights and Duties of Non-inhuman Beings in the Digital Episteme

- Bernard STIEGLER

Postface

- Suhail MALIK, Tirdad ZOLGHADR

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