The human snapshot /

The human snapshot / edited by Thomas Keenan & Tirdad Zolghadr. - [Meilen], Switzerland : Annandale-on-Hudson, Ny : Berlin : Luma Foundation ; Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College ; Sternberg Press, c2013. - xxx, 319 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm

"This publication documents the proceedings of the conference, The human snapshot, held in Arles, France, on July 2 and 3, 2011, as part of an ongoing series of projects and programs organized by the LUMA Foundation"--P. [7].

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Introduction : the sandwich / "The family of man" : a visual universal declaration of human rights / Notes on display, and a work by Alejandra Riera / A brief encounter with fine art, universality, and other weathered notions / The colonial modern : of pylons, airplanes, and donkeys / Tropicale modernit ̌/ A xenophobic democracy / Reimagining the common : rethinking the refugee experience / Spectators of the now, the now of spectatorship / The politics of neutrality : constructing a global civility / Missing people : entanglement, superposition, and exhumation as sites of indeterminacy / The image is the bone! / Notes on the double bind of universalism and image / Humanist correspondence / Toward a grammar of emergency / Copia / Fragments of humanity / Afterword : two snapshots / Maja Hoffmann -- Tirdad Zolghadr -- Ariella Azoulay -- Roger M. Buergel -- Bassam El Baroni -- Marion von Osten -- Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster -- Michel Feher -- Sadi Hilal and Alessandro Petti -- Katya Sander -- Suhail Malik -- Hito Steyerl -- Eyal Weizman -- Anselm Franke -- Alex Klein -- Hal Foster -- Denis Hollier -- Georges Didi-Huberman -- Thomas Keenan.

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