What is visual culture / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- Studying visual culture / Irit Rogoff -- Narrativizing visual culture : towards a polycentric aesthetics / Ella Shohat and Robert Stam -- Optics / Renâe Descartes -- Scopic regimes of modernity / Martin Jay -- Rhetoric of the image / Roland Barthes -- Modernity and the spaces of femininity / Griselda Pollock -- The Modern Art Museum / Carol Duncan -- On collecting art and culture / James Clifford -- A topographical amnesia / Paul Virilio -- Woman in a mirror / Marshall McLuhan -- Visual stories / Ann Reynolds -- From The practice of everyday life / michel de Certeau -- Videotech / John Fiske -- The wall, the screen and the image : the Vietnam Veterans Memorial / Marita Sturken -- The persistence of vision / Donna Haraway -- Science and the cinema / Lisa Cartwright -- Reading the slender body / Susan Bordo -- On the cutting edge : cosmetic surgery and the technological production of the gendered body / Anne Balsamo -- Of other spaces / Michel Foucault -- The camera obscura and its subject / Jonathan Crary -- The mobilized and virtual gaze in modernity : flaneur/flaneuse / Anne Friedberg -- From the Victoria Nyanza to the Sheraton San Salvador / Mary-Louise Pratt -- Spectres of cyberspace / Geoffrey Batchen -- Orientalism and the exhibitionary order / Timothy Mitchell -- Soft-soaping empire : commodity racism and imperial advertising / Anne McClintock -- From The colonial harem / Malek Alloula -- Vodun art, social history and the slave trade / Suzanne Preston Blier -- Art of darkness : black art and the problem of belonging to England / Paul Gilroy -- Representing whiteness : seeing Wings of Desire / bell hooks -- The gangsta and the diva / Andrew Ross -- Passing for white, passing for black / Adrian Piper -- The other history of intercultural performance / Coco Fusco -- Remaking passports : visual thought in the debate on multiculturalism / Nâestor Garcâia Canclini -- Engendering new worlds : allegories of rape and reconciliation / Oriana Baddeley -- Ideal masculinities : and anatomy of power / Anthea Callen -- The forbidden gaze : women artists and the male nude in late nineteenth-century France / Tamar Garb -- Prohibition, psychoanalysis and the heterosexual matrix / Judith Butler -- The third body : patterns in the construction of the subject in gay male narrative film / Thomas Waugh -- Gender is burning : questions of appropriation and subversion / Judith Butler -- Looking good : the lesbian gaze and fashion imagery / Reina Lewis -- From The female nude : art, obscenity and sexuality / Lynda Nead -- ''Penguin in bondage' : a graphic tale of Japanese comic books / Sandra Buckley -- Idol thoughts : orgasm and self-reflexivity in gay pornography / Richard Dyer.