Demanding Images
Demanding Images The end of authoritarian rule in 1998 ushered in an exhilarating but unsettled period of democratization in Indonesia. In Demanding Images Karen Strassler theorizes image-events as…
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Demanding Images
The end of authoritarian rule in 1998 ushered in an exhilarating but unsettled period of democratization in Indonesia. In Demanding Images Karen Strassler theorizes image-events as political processes in which publicly circulating images become the material ground of struggles over the nation's past, present, and future. A more open political climate converged with a rapidly changing media landscape, yielding a vibrant and volatile public sphere within which Indonesians grappled with the possibilities and limits of democracy amid entrenched corruption, state violence, and rising forms of intolerance.
Demanding Images is both a closely Considering photographs, posters, contemporary art, graffiti, selfies, memes, and other visual media, she argues that people increasingly engage with politics through acts of making, circulating, manipulating, and scrutinizing images.