visual culture

Wounded Sovereignty: The Palestinian Body as Symbolic Capital in the Age of War Economies

In this article, the Palestinian body is studied not only as a physical entity, but also as a symbolic surface through which practices of control are transmitted and systems of conflict are rewritten. From the field to the image, from oppression to resistance, the article traces how the body is persecuted, consumed, and re-represented, while exploring the possibility of restoring its meaning and sovereignty from within the visual space itself.

An Expert Testimony

In Eyal Weizman’s new book, the reader joins the author as he hovers over contested territories in the Middle East, follows him as he traces the histories, ideologies, slippery borders, technologies, and narratives involved in the State-inflicted marginalization and displacement of the Bedouin inhabitants of the Negev desert, in Southern Israel. Rotem Rozental reviews “The Conflict Shoreline,” as well as Weizman’s methodology of forensic visual culture research.

Apocalypse Yesterday

The Dome of the Rock – that golden, volatile rock of contention – is at the center of an exhibition at the Bezalel Photography Gallery. Noa Hazan writes for Tohu about the exhibition and about the visual research that has preceded it, which involved studying hundreds of photographs of the site from the last 150 years, and suggested new terms for looking at its visual representations.