Visuality and Visual Theories

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How do we see the world? Not only through our own eyes but through the eyes of others and with the mediation of technologies, perspectives, and points of view, giving us an embedded language to interpret what we see. In the last centuries, this construction of our visual field has been heavily indebted to imperial and racial capitalist modes of production. We will examine these constructions through a variety of technological devices: the camera obscura, panorama, photography, and cinema, and their use in processes of colonization and decolonization, drawing on the case of Algeria and other cases as well.