Books published in 2023
White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness (MIT Press, 2023), 356pp. 96 illustrations. Use code “ReadMIT15” to get a 15% discount via Penguin Random House.
An Introduction to Visual Culture 3rd edition (London and New York: Routledge, 2023).
Essays
MONUMENTS, MUSEUMS AND WHITENESS
- “The Whiteness of Birds,” liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 120–137.
- “An Anticolonial Way of Seeing: Race, Violence and Photography in Notting Hill (1951-1960).” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (Vol. 24 no. 2) 2022.
- “Of Slingshots, Statues and Shacks: Coloniality and the Infrastructures of Whiteness,” Studi Culturali XVIII no. 2 (Agosto, 2021): 181-200.
- “All the Monuments Must Fall #Charlottesville,” The Funambulist 37 (August, 2021)
- “The Capitol Insurgency and the Monument,” Monument Lab Bulletin, Feb. 15, 2021
- “Artificial Vision, White Space and Racial Surveillance Capitalism,” in AI and Society (2020). PDF version here
- with Dan Hicks, “Fallism and restitution: Removing racist statues and returning looted art objects,” New African (August 8, 2020).
- “All Monuments Must Fall,” collaborative bibliographic resource (September, 2o20).
- “Why It’s Right That the Theodore Roosevelt Statue Comes Down,” Hyperallergic (June 20, 2020)
- “What Refugee Camps Can Teach Us About Museums,” Frieze (October 27, 2019)
- “How Do We Address a Statue of President Roosevelt That Affirms Racist Hierarchies?” Hyperallergic (September 24, 2019)
- “How France’s Restitution Report Unsettled the Conversation about Cultural Property,” (March 15, 2019), Frieze
- “Empty The Museum, Decolonize the Curriculum, Open Theory,” The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 25 no. 3 (2017).
BLACK LIVES MATTER
- “Watching Whitness Shift From Black to Blue Via Nationalist Aesthetics,” Hyperallergic (Nov. 30, 2020)
- “How Adopting Antifascist Tactics Can Help Remake Cultural Institutions,” Hyperallergic (June 30, 2020).
- “Lessons Learned At the Feet of Frederick Douglass,” Hyperallergic (April 11, 2019)
- “Tactics of Appearance for Abolition Democracy,” Critical Inquiry (2018)
- The Appearance of Black Lives Matter (NAME Publications, 2017)
- “The Murder of Michael Brown: Reading the Grand Jury Transcript,” Social Text 126 (Spring 2016): 46-71.
- “Ferguson Taught Us To Not Look Away,” Time (August 10, 2015).
VISUAL ACTIVISM
- “For David With Love,” e-flux journal 111 (Sep. 2020)
- “How Adopting Antifascist Practices Can Remake Cultural Institutions,” Hyperallergic (June 18, 2020)
- “Notes from the Necropolis,” in The Quarantine Files, ed. Brad Evans, Los Angeles Review of Books (April 20, 2020)
- “The Politics of Seeing Within The Global City,” Hyperallergic (May 29, 2018)
- “Empty The Museum, Decolonize The Curriculum, Open Theory,” The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, No. 53 (2017), pp. 6–22
- “Theory Is Not Just Words On A Page,” Interview with Nicholas Mirzoeff Buala (27 June, 2017).
- “What Protest Looks Like.” Interview with Natasha Lennard. New York Times (August 3, 2016).
- “Persistent Looking in Times of Crisis,” interview with Magda Szcześniak in Widok 11 (2016)
- “In 2014 we took 1 tn. photos: Welcome to our new visual culture,” The Guardian, July 10, 2015
- “The Republican Debate: Won and Lost on Social Media,” Newsweek. Oct. 28, 2015.
- “You Are Not A Loan: Debt and New Media,” in Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Anna Fisher (eds.), New Media, Old Media, 2nd ed. (New York: Routledge, 2016).
- “The Visual Commons: Counter-Power in Photography from Slavery to Occupy Wall Street,” in Charlotte Krunk and Jens Eder (eds.), Image Operations (Manchester University Press, 2016).
- “The History of the Anonymous and Horizontal Visuality,” in Aruna D’Souza (ed.), Art History After the Global Turn (New Haven: Yale University Press/Clark Art Institute, 2014).
- “Why I Occupy,” Public Culture vol. 24 no. 3 (Fall 2012): 451-456.
DECOLONIZING THE EARTH SYSTEM CRISIS
- “Decolonial {R}evolution: Petrocracy and Geological Modernity from Detroit to Palestine and Back,” Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and The Americas 3 (2017) 322-343.
- “Below The Water: Black Lives Matter and Revolutionary Time,” e-flux journal #79 Feb. 2017.
- “It’s Not The Anthropocene, It’s The White Supremacy Scene; or, The Geological Color Line,” in Richard Grusin (ed.), After Extinction (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016).
- “Visualizing The Anthropocene,” Public Culture 26. 2 (Spring 2014): 213-32.
- “The Clash of Visualizations: Climate Change and Counterinsurgency” Social Research (2011), vol. 78 no. 4, 1185-1212
PALESTINE AND THE MIDDLE EAST
- “To See In the Dark: The Nakba and the Landswept Way of Seeing,” Social Text 156 (vol. 41 no 3) Spetember 2023: 59-75.
- “A Moment of Clarity,” Journal of Visual Culture (August, 2021).
- “Photographs That Refuse To Stay Silent on The Palestinian Catastrophe,” Hyperallergic (May, 15, 2018)
- “Salt and Basic Communism #dignitystrike,” Decolonize This Place. May 4, 2017.
- How To See Palestine: An ABC of Occupation 2017. (Scalar-project).
- “Against Amnesia: The Cultural Boycott of Israel Matters,” with Amin Husain and Nitasha Dhillon, Hyperallergic. (Feb. 12, 2015).
- “Disorientalism: Minority and Visuality in Imperial London,” TDR: The Drama Review, Volume 50, Number 2 (T 190), Summer 2006, pp. 52-69. This piece explores African, Jewish, Irish and queer disidentifications with Orientalism to “invert” its categories of serial pathology into minoritarian collectivity.
- “The Empire of Camps,” from Cultures of Fear A Critical Reader. Ed(s): Uli Linke, Danielle Taana Smith (London: Pluto Press, 2009)
- “Invisible Empire: Visual Culture, Embodied Spectacle and Abu Ghraib,” Radical History Review Issue 95 (Spring 2006): 21–44.
BOOKS
- White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness (MIT Press, 2023).
- The Appearance of Black Lives Matter (NAME Publications, 2017)
- How To See The World: An Introduction to Images from Selfies to Self-Portraits, Maps to Movies and More (New York: Basic Books, 2016). Translations: China, Taiwan, Italy, Spain, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Korea.
- How To See The World (London: Pelican, 2015). “Introduction” and “Visual Activism“
- The Right to Look: A Counter-History of Visuality (Duke University Press, 2011). “Introduction,” “Antifascist NeoRealism: North-South and the Permanent Battle for Algiers“
- An Introduction to Visual Culture (London and New York: Routledge, 1999) translations into Italian, Spanish, Korean and Chinese. Third fully revised edition, 2009. Third fully revised edition, 2023.
- Seinfeld: A Critical Study of the Series (British Film Institute, 2007)
- Watching Babylon: the War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture (Routledge, 2005) translated into Italian as Guardare la Guerra (Rome: Meltemi, 2005
- (as editor) Diaspora and Visual Culture: Representing Africans and Jews (London and New York: Routledge, 2001
- (as editor) The Visual Culture Reader (London and New York: Routledge, 1998) Second fully revised edition, 2002. Third fully revised edition 2012.
- Bodyscape: Art, Modernity and the Ideal Figure (London and New York: 1995) translated into Korean
- Silent Poetry: Deafness, Sign and Visual Culture in Modern France (Princeton and London: Princeton University Press, 1995)
SELECTED ACADEMIC ESSAYS
“The Right to Look,” Critical Inquiry 37, (Spring 2011): 473-92
“Striking: The Right to Strike/The Striking Image/Striking the Right,” in Jonathan Harris (ed.), Identity Theft: The Cultural Colonization of Contemporary Art (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press+Tate Liverpool, 2008), 197-220.
“Ghostwriting: Working Out Visual Culture,” Journal of Visual Culture (2002) Vol 1 (2): 239-254
“Revolution, Representation, Equality: Gender, Genre, and Emulation in the Académie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture, 1785-93.” Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 31, No. 2, Questions of Gender (Winter, 1997/1998), pp. 153-174
“Body Talk: Deafness, Sign and Visual Language in the Ancien Régime,” Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 25, No. 4, Special Issue: Art History: New Voices/New Visions (Summer, 1992), pp. 561-585