War and Visual Culture

Undergraduate

This course focuses on war and visual cultures, and provides historical, theoretical, and conceptual foundations for understanding the concerns and controversies for “seeing” war. This course also wanders beyond “war itself” to include forms of war that are often unrecognized as such—in everyday experiences, material effects, and affective resonances of violence that have penetrated and contaminated the times and places where perpetual wars of US empire and other never-ending wars continue. This course will consider such experiences, effects, and resonances as these intersect and conflict with aesthetic practices of making war perceptible – or not.