| Summary: | When we think about image and visual culture in general, the name Marie-José Mondzain comes to mind. In this interview, she discusses the origin and efficacy of image and image making as they run through history, politics, culture, and across the seeping veins of power in our everyday life. As Mondzain shows here and in other writings, to understand how image works is to understand how individuals, in viewing images, become spectators in their coming to be as desiring and speaking subjects. In print, virtually, or otherwise, images and power serve each other, establishing and policing the zones of distinction between vision and gaze, the visible and the invisible, power and resistance, belief and unbelief. Images are always contemporary, always with the time, always with us in time. This interview sheds light on why and how this is the case, through the anthropological truth image making reveals, as well as the political reality we create and recreate as the image makers and image destroyers.
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