The scholar W. J. T. Mitchell, editor of Critical Inquiry, has taken as his subject the intersection of literature and visual arts, which leads him to visual culture and media studies. The above interview, following his lecture Cloning Terror, is a good introduction to a recent history of the subject.
A practitioner, taking cues from Mitchell and particularly his call for a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil, is @williambanzai7. William Banzai, of Zero Hedge notoriety, strives for a contemporary polemical image activism in his critique of money, power and institutions. Watch his year end YULE-POCALYPSE NOW!
