What a body can do: from the frenzy of the communicative to the visual bond...

Summers, Francis (2018) What a body can do: from the frenzy of the communicative to the visual bond... In: Photography Reframed. I.B. Taurus, London. (Unpublished)

Creators:
Summers, Francis
Description/Abstract:

Book chapter on networked photography and pornography. In this essay I reflect on the use of Tumblr for users to curate images, addressing Jodi Dean's notion of communicative capitalism as drive-circulation, and Hito Steyerl's notion of the visual bond as discussed in her important essay on the poor image. There is also a discussion of shifts in digital culture since 2012, including shifts of apps, hacking and sharing of celebrity photographs in the so-called 'Fappening' and the paradoxes of self-enforced self-pornographication.

Item Type:
Book Section
Date:
9 February 2018
Schools:
School of Fine Art, Crafts & Photography
Depositing User:
Dr Francis Summers
Date Deposited:
12 Feb 2018 15:41
Last Modified:
14 Nov 2019 13:33
URI:
https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/4721

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