Note: Most excerpts are avaliable in Canvas. The rest will soon be.
Joana Ebenstein, “Ode to an Anatomical Venus,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, vol. 40, no.3/4 (Fall/Winter 2012): 346-352
David Mark Mitchell, “Vividness without Vitality: The Specola Venus’s Intersecting Afterlives,” Journal 18, no. 3 http://www.journal18.org/issue3/vividness-without-vitality-the-specola-venuss-intersecting-afterlives/
Georges Didi-Huberman, “Wax Flesh, Vicious Circles,” in Encyclopedia Anatomica: a complete collection of anatomical waxes (New York: Taschen, 1999), 64-74
Hans Belting, “Chapter 1,” An Anthropology of Images: Picture, Medium, Body (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011), pp. 9-36.
Sergei Eisenstein, Eisenstein on Disney (Calcutta: Seagull Books, 1986), pp. 7-40
James Elkins, “An Introduction to the Visual Studies That is Not in this Book,” Theorizing Visual Studies: Writing Through the Discipline (New York: Routledge, 2013), 3-15.
Excerpts from “Questionnaire on Visual Culture” in October 77 (Summer 1996): 25-70.
Anne Friedberg, The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006), 192-239.
Bernard Siegert, "(Not) In Place: The Grid, or, Cultural Techniques of Ruling Places," in Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real (Fordham UP, 2015), 97-120.
Giorgio Agamben, “The Face,” in Means Without End: Notes on Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000), pp. 91-100.
Noa Steimatsky, excerpt from The Face on Film (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)
Jurgis Baltrusaitis, Anamorphic Art (New York: Harry N, Abrams, 1977), 91-114.
Ed Finn, ”House of Cards: The Aesthetics of Absraction” What Alogorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing (2017), 87-112.
John Cheney-Lippold, ”Subjectivity: Who do they think you are?” We Are Data: Algorithms and The Making of Our Digital Selves (New York: New York University Press, 2017), 181-195