Citational Media: Counter-Archives and Technology in Contemporary Visual Culture

Annie Ring; Lucy Bollington

Citational Media
Counter-Archives and Technology in Contemporary Visual Culture

Edited by Annie Ring and Lucy Bollington

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Visual Culture 7

Legenda

May 2024 • 234pp

ISBN: 978-1-839542-02-2 (hardback) • RRP £85, $115, €99

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Citational Media foregrounds the potential of a set of counter-archival practices that have emerged in contemporary visual media outside the traditional space of the cinema. Each chapter focuses on examples of visual or performance culture that appropriate, reuse and so progressively ‘archive’ other media or footage, in their attempts to critique dominant ideologies in an age of new technologies and seemingly ongoing global turbulence. The resulting case studies, drawn from the late twentieth century to the present day, range from critical reuses of television footage that undercut the medium’s original meanings, to popular Vlogs screened through YouTube and Twitch that performatively cite smart technologies and their software interfaces. Together they show citational media practices which, while ambivalent in their possible meanings, can recast the narratives and archives that have governed contemporary life and, if left unquestioned, risk further constricting and exploiting it.

Annie Ring is Associate Professor of German and Film and Lucy Bollington is Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Film. Both are based in the School of European Languages, Culture and Society and the Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry, University College London.

See news item: Counter-Archives (3 January 2023)

Contents:

1	Acknowledgements Annie Ring, Lucy Bollington	Cite
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2	Notes on Contributors Annie Ring, Lucy Bollington	Cite
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3	Introduction Annie Ring, Lucy Bollington	Cite
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4	Citational Media as Counter-Archives Annie Ring, Lucy Bollington	Cite
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5	Archives of the Future Past: Harun Farocki’s Critique of Television in The Trouble with Images (1973) Laura Lux	Cite
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6	Between Citational Genealogy and the Counter-Archival Uncanny: Adam Curtis and the Democratisation of the Archive Emily Baker	Cite
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7	Excavation and Entstellung: (Media-) Archaeological Activity and Postcolonial Memory Work in William Kentridge’s Wozzeck and The Head & the Load Lawrence Alexander	Cite
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8	Critique, Repair and Care: Rebuilding the Black and Decolonial Archive with Theaster Gates and Kader Attia Jenny Chamarette	Cite
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9	Counter-Archiving Coloniality in the Americas: Rita Indiana and others’ After School (2020) R. Sánchez-Rivera, Natasha Tanna	Cite
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10	The Material Impact of ‘the Digital’ in Counter-Archival Video Works by Hito Steyerl and Brenda Lien Annie Ring	Cite
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11	From the Cyborg to the Rendered Body: Conceptualising Redistributions in Composite Agency Through Hito Steyerl’s Citational Figures Lucy Bollington	Cite
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12	Twin Faces as Sites of Uncertainty in Algorithmic Image Cultures Edward King	Cite
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13	Filmography Annie Ring, Lucy Bollington	Cite
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Ring, Annie, and Lucy Bollington (eds), Citational Media: Counter-Archives and Technology in Contemporary Visual Culture, Visual Culture, 7 (Legenda, 2024)

First footnote reference: ³⁵ Citational Media: Counter-Archives and Technology in Contemporary Visual Culture, ed. by Annie Ring and Lucy Bollington, Visual Culture, 7 (Legenda, 2024), p. 21.

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Ring, Annie, and Lucy Bollington (eds). 2024. Citational Media: Counter-Archives and Technology in Contemporary Visual Culture, Visual Culture, 7 (Legenda)

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Citational Media
Counter-Archives and Technology in Contemporary Visual Culture