Lisa Cartwright

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Full) at University of California, San Diego

In this chapter, the authors approach visual culture pedagogy through an account of their academic training and work histories as they informed our book Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture in its three very different editions (2001, 2008, 2018). The authors' goal was to offer a kind of flexible toolbox of theories and examples t...

Objects as communicative devices have been compulsory among many individuals who are deafblind. Within such communities, deafblind individuals utilize a “talking stick” to orientate corporeal relations that are defined through spatial organization. The talking stick guides individuals toward mutual proximity—one individual orients to the other by o...

This article introduces the concept of geopolitical affect in landscape photography and video, focusing on two series by the US artist Connie Samaras: V.A.L.I.S. (2004-5) and Edge of Twilight (2011–2018). The article draws on the cybernetic affect theory of the mid-century US psychologist Silvan S Tomkins as well as the artist’s own concept of spec...

For this contribution to the special issue on "Mapping Queer Bioethics," the author employs an array of public health and popular media texts (especially Jonathan Demme's film Philadelphia) to challenge the construction and reconstruction of HIV-positive bodies as sites of bioethical concern. In outlining notions of "digital restoration," the autho...

Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of antiblackness and intersectionality and the concept of viral visibility, this essay attends to the considerable archive of research about endemic Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) in sub-Saharan Africa accrued during the mid-20th century. This body of data was inexplicably overlooked in Western research into KS during t...

This essay examines the use of social media as platforms for public education about pandemics, focusing on the case of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Lisa Cartwright considers the 2009 H1N1 outbreak and its designation as a pandemic by organizations like the World Health Organization and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, compar...

EMPATHOGRAPHY In this catalogue book Lisa Cartwright, Kim Sawchuk and Tamar Tembeck discuss the notion of Empathography in my recent work.

This article is concerned with the affective relationship among bodies and film technologies in the process of building and using filmmaking instruments, taking as its object the early Rotoscope, a device patented by the legendary American animator Max Fleischer that entailed the projection of live-action film for use as a template in the drawing o...

Argument This essay considers the work of projection and the hand of the projectionist as important components of the social space of the cinema as it comes into being in the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth. I bring the concept of Maurice Merleau-Ponty on the place of the body as an entity that applies itself to the world...

In this article, I consider how communities form around health care advocacy and activism. My concern is the place of visual media in the politics of breast cancer. Art photography and film are considered against mainstream images and media campaigns focusing on breast cancer. The primary work considered is the self-portrait photography of the arti...

This article proposes a use of Silvan Tomkins’s concept of shame to understand classroom practices of looking at photographs that represent bodies with visible disabilities. We consider an instance of classroom looking to suggest a concept of intersubjective, authorized public looking and to propose that the experiences of surprise and shame are co...

Drawing on the writings of Luc Boltanski on moral spectatorship and a change to Boltanski’s politics in response to images of distant suffering, this article considers a visual turn in psychoanalysis around the period of the Second World War, coincident with the emergence of a new international vision of the child as an entity requiring special pro...

Social Text 21.1 (2003) 83-109 This essay considers the place of visual media, specifically child portrait photography, in the culture of international adoption. In 1999 my husband and I began to research transnational adoption for what was to be a personal process: adoption of a toddler-aged child into our family, which included a three-year-old b...

This article examines how the convergence of various media impacts upon the relations between film studies and visual studies. The questions raised are: How did visual studies emerge as a discipline with film studies in its purview? How does the digital, an aspect of late 20th-century visual culture which emerged roughly simultaneously with visual...

This article considers how telemedicine emerged as an important new means of constructing new geographic and social relationships in health care. Telemedicine is considered in light of the telecommunications revolution of the 1990s and the potential for expanding health markets during this period. An argument is made that telemedicine is part of an...

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