sakuravanilla

“It may be time to rein in our notions of the political stakes in a critique of visual cultures, and to scale down the rhetoric of the “power of images.”…This problem is to refine and complicate our estimate of their power and the way it works.That is why I shift the question from what pictures do to what they want, from power to desire, from the model of the dominant power to be opposed, to the model of the subaltern to be interrogated or (better) to be invited to speak”

Mitchell, WJTWhat Do Pictures Want?