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Watching Babylon: The War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture Hardback - 2005 - 1st Edition

by Nicholas Mirzoeff

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Groundbreaking and compelling, Watching Babylon examines the experience of watching the war against Iraq on television, on the internet, in the cinema and in print media.

Mirzoeff shows how the endless stream of images flowing from the Gulf has necessitated a new form of visual thinking, one which recognises that the war has turned images themselves into weapons. Drawing connections between the history and legend of ancient Babylon, the metaphorical Babylon of Western modernity, and everyday life in the modern suburb of Babylon, New York, Mirzoeff explores ancient concerns which have found new resonance in the present day.

In the tradition of Walter Benjamin, Watching Babylon illuminates the Western experience of the Iraqi war and makes us re-examine the very way we look at images of conflict.

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When the "shock and awe" stage of the invasion of Iraq began, I was watching TV from an exercise bike in a Long Island gym.

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  • Title Watching Babylon: The War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture
  • Author Nicholas Mirzoeff
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Publication date 2005-01-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780415343091 / 0415343097
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.74 x 6.54 x 0.66 in (22.20 x 16.61 x 1.68 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
  • Category Sociology
  • Dewey Decimal Code 302.23

About the author

Nicholas Mirzoeff is Associate Professor of Art at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Bodyscape; Art, Modernity and the Ideal Figure (1995) and An Introduction to Visual Culture (1999), and the editor of The Visual Culture Reader (second edition 2002)
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