Naslov
Increasing the Visibility of Blindness: Natalie Bookchin's Mass Ornament

Autori
Willems, Brian Daniel

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Video Vortex Reader II

Urednik/ci
Lovnik, Geert ; Niederer, Sabine

Izdavač
Institute of Network Cultures (INC)

Grad
Amsterdam

Godina
2011

Raspon stranica
293-305

ISBN
978-90-78146-12-4

Ključne riječi
Blindness, Natalie Bookchin, Siegfried Kracauer, tagging

Sažetak
I argue that there is a qualitative difference in the ability of social media like Facebook and YouTube to make what Paul de Man would call a 'blindness of reading' visible. This qualitative difference is made manifest through the ability to track, and hence see (through tags and other metainformation), a number of connections between bodies that would otherwise remain hidden. The most important part of understanding this difference lies in seeing the manner in which these connections are made visible. Two examples are central to reading the visibility of blindness as it relates to YouTube in particular: 1) Avital Ronell's argument from the early 1990s that video's inability to be read (in the case of the ambiguity of the tape of the Rodney King beating) paradoxically visualizes the unreadable trauma of television ; 2) in a more contemporary example, Natalie Bookchin's Mass Ornament (2009), a piece of video art utilizing YouTube, is seen as an example of structuring a visualization of the unseen.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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