The publisher themselves notes, regarding the book: “Golpes de vista, sociologist and essayist Olivia Muñoz-Rojas Oscarsson proposes an original reading of the last 250 years to show that politics is not decided only in parliaments and battlefields, but also in images, monuments, clothing, films, and screens. Power is staged, legitimized, and naturalized through visible forms; and in that same arena, resistance learns to recognize itself, organize itself, and contest the collective narrative.”
From the construction of modern nations to the era of surveillance capitalism and digital protest, this essay traces an ambitious political history of contemporary visual culture. With a comparative and global perspective, Muñoz-Rojas connects art, fashion, urbanism, design, cinema, and digital culture to illuminate the cultural and geopolitical conflicts that thread through our present.
Because understanding how we look is also understanding how we are governed. And how we can begin to imagine other forms of life in common.”
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Author: Olivia Muñoz-Rojas Oscarsson. Title: Golpes de vista. Publisher: Paidós. Retailer: Todos tus libros.