Knowledge Commons | Visual Culture | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture-211369029/ Activity feed for the group, Visual Culture. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:08:13 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 d1c89d1c258af8f725b5bca7e3c3d950 Gustavo Racy deposited Of Cannibals and Witches: Monstrosity and Capitalism at the Onset of Colonial Visual Culture in the group Visual Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834287/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:28:35 -0500 This article provides preliminary insight into the creation of colonial visual culture. Using visual examples, the author shows how the encounter between European and Amerindian was, at first, apparently deprived of moral judgement, later being increasingly signified through moral and physical monstrosity, especially the female body, which served…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f49488e1b522f819389a056a7778f49 Gustavo Racy deposited To Make See and to Let Die: photography and testimony in the group Visual Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834285/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:28:34 -0500 The focus of this article is a speculative argument on the relation between photography and testimony as one that situates the viewer on a particularly powerless, but responsibility-laden position. Articulating Nilufër Demir’s viral 2015 photograph of Aylan Kurdi, and Walter Kleinfeldt’s 1918 photograph of an unknown fallen soldier, as images bear…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4e1d8174367d47956e70956f50b565f Gustavo Racy created the group Visual Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833689/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 13:44:34 -0500 0