GHIS 6815 -

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The New School

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Politics of the Image in the Muslim World Not offered 2008-09. Three credits. Faisal Devji Images lead lives and suffer deaths: They are produced, circulated, and destroyed not only by people but also together with them. Images represent people to themselves as well as to others, and their existence is entwined with the lives of those who make, use, and abandon them. The world of images is therefore a political world with its own modes of friendship and enmity, survival and destruction, even escape. In this course, we look at the lives and deaths of images in the Muslim world, a place whose politics is generally confined to books, ideas, and a limited repertoire of actions. And yet the production, proliferation, and profanation of images in this world is far more extensive than any book, idea, or political act. Does this world of images possess its own politics Does it allow us to look at politics differently Does the circulation of images define the limits of the Muslim world or does it breach those limits We explore these and other questions by discussing themes like idolatry and iconoclasm, representation and modernity, dictatorial and revolutionary aesthetics, the image as commodity, and the spectacle of violence in several parts of the Muslim world.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.newschool.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 229-5600

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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