Mon 12.07.09| Pictures, Politics, and the Suburbs

Hinderliter et al., eds., Communities of Sense: Rethinking Aesthetics and Politics Duke U. Press, 2009

David Joselit, Feedback: Television Against Democracy MIT Press, 2007

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What happens to people in suburbs and exurbs? What kind of political community is produced there? And what role do, and can, pictures and images play in situating humans as isolated and aloof, or communal and democratic? David Joselit shares his perspective on these and other issues.

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