A short posting ruminating on, and extending a definition of visual culture by art and art history theorist W.J.T. Mitchell. Visual culture is not just the social construction of vision, of what we see. Visual culture is also the visual construction of the social, our way of mapping who we present ourselves to be and how we interface with the social territory we have staked out as our position. And because personal and public identity is fleeting—or nomadic at best—our visual culture is ever a thing in flux.
JHRolling
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