There are no visual media / The (in)human spatial condition : a visual essay / Mapping non-conformity : post-bubble urban strategies / X-reality : interview with the virtual cannibal / On software, or the persistence of visual knowledge / Notes on the photographic image / Queer faces : photography and subcultural lives / Currents of worldmaking in contemporary art / Sublimated with mineral fury : prelim notes on sounding pandemonium Asia / The sea and the land : biopower and visuality from slavery to Katrina / The archaeology of violence : the king's head / On the actuarial gaze : from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib / American military imaginaries and Iraqi cities / Zeroing in : overhead imagery, infrastructure ruins, and datalands in Afghanistan and Iraq / What Greg Roberts saw : visuality, intelligibility, and sovereignty : 36,000km over the equator / Media and martyrdom / Live true life or die trying / Kino-I, Kino-world : notes on the cinematic mode of production / On virtuosity / Faking globalization / Creativity and the problem of free labor / It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism / Do it yourself geo-politics / Optics / Blindness and visual culture : an eye witness account / Reduplicative desires / The persistence of vision / The body and/in representation / Forever modern : Mami Wata visual culture and history in Africa / The mobilized and virtual gaze in modernity : flâneur/flâneuse / Tourism and "sacred ground" : the space of ground zero / Maps, mother/goddesses, and martyrdom in modern India / Museums in late democracies / The fact of blackness / The case of blackness / Orientalism and the exhibitionary order / The colonial harem / Vodun art, social history and the slave trade / Between cult and culture : Bamiyan, Islamic iconoclasm and the museum / The postcolonial constellation : contemporary art in a state of permanent transition / Urban warfare : walking through walls / U.S. operating systems at midcentury : the intertwining of race and UNIX / Rethinking the digital age / The unworkable interface / On the superiority of the analog / Digital racial formations and networked images of the body / Imagination, multimodality and embodied interaction : a discussion of sound and movement in two cases of laboratory and clinical magnetic resonance imaging