The Pandemic Visual Regime: Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on Visual Culture and Performance

By Julia Ramrez-Blanco, Francesco Spampinato

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about a new era of visual culture and performance, with profound implications for our society. The Pandemic Visual Regime: Visuality and Performativity in the COVID-19 Crisis delves into the role of images in shaping our understanding of this global emergency.

This book argues that visuality and its relationships with the performative have played a significant role in the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to the emergence of a new way of seeing and representing the world under this global emergency.

Through an interdisciplinary framework, The Pandemic Visual Regime aims to answer key questions such as:

• How have the effects of the pandemic been racialized, thereby reinforcing white supremacy?
• How are our responses to COVID-19 shaped by the Hollywood outbreak narrative of films such as Contagion?
• How has design responded to our new pandemic needs?
• How have infographics affected our perception?
• In which new ways have we come to inhabit private, public, and virtual space?
• What changes have there been in the forms of digital surveillance?
• On the other side of the spectrum, what forms has mutual aid taken and what have been our forms of relating with nature, both during lockdown and after lockdown was over?

These questions open the field to rethinking the visuality of our post-pandemic zeitgeist.

Product Details

Publisher: Punctum Books (November 8, 2023)

Language: English

Pages: 268

ISBN-10: 1685711243

ISBN-13: 978-1685711245