Keenan, Thomas; Malik, Suhail and Zolghadr, Tirdad, eds. 2017. The Flood of Rights. Berlin / Annandale on Hudson, New York: Sternberg Press / Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College. ISBN 978-3-95679-140-6 [Edited Book]

Preview

Image (The Flood of RIghts Cover) Screen Shot 2017-09-20 at 23.19.52.png - Cover Image Download (252kB) | Preview

Abstract or Description

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?

Item Type:	Edited Book
Additional Information:	Contributors: Amanda Beech, Rony Brauman, David Campbell, Olivia Custer, Rosalyn Deutsche, Thomas Keenan, Eric Kluitenberg, David Levine, Suhail Malik, Sohrab Mohebbi, Sharon Sliwinski, Hito Steyerl, Bernard Stiegler, Tirdad Zolghadr. The Flood of Rights draws on a conference of the same name, organized by the LUMA Foundation and Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, which took place in Arles, France, in September 2013.
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Art
Date:	10 March 2017
Item ID:	21163
Date Deposited:	21 Sep 2017 15:27
Last Modified:	03 Feb 2021 16:04
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/21163

View statistics for this item...

Edit Record (login required)