Visual Cultures as Time Travel by Henriette Gunkel - ISBN: 9783956795381
Paperback
Future-oriented research explores climate change, slavery’s legacy, and speculative futures.
  • Paperback

    88 pages

  • Release Date

    14 September 2021

Summary

Visual Cultures as Time Travel makes a case for cultural, aesthetic, and historical research that is oriented toward the future, not the past, actively constructing new categories of assembly that don’t yet exist.

Ayesha Hameed considers the relationship between climate change and plantation economies, proposing a watery plantationocene that revolves around two islands—a former plantation in St. George’s Parish in Barbados, and the port city of Port of Spain in Trinidad. It visits a m…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9783956795381
ISBN-10:3956795385
Author:Henriette Gunkel, Ayesha Hameed
Publisher:Sternberg Press
Imprint:Sternberg Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:88
Release Date:14 September 2021
Weight:170g
Dimensions:200mm x 148mm x 7mm
Series:Sternberg Press / Visual Cultures as...
About The Author

Henriette Gunkel

Ayesha Hameed is currently the Co-Programme Leader for the PhD in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Henriette Gunkel is Professor of Transformations of Audiovisual Media with special emphasis on gender and queer theory at the Institute for Media Studies, Ruhr University Bochum.

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