Robert Hariman / Northwestern University – Flow

On the Surface
Robert Hariman/Northwestern University and John Louis Lucaites/Indiana University

April 9, 2012 Robert Hariman / Northwestern University 2 comments

A consideration of the affective substance of photographic surfaces.

The Banality of Violence
Robert Hariman / Northwestern University and John Louis Lucaites / Indiana University

January 28, 2012 Robert Hariman / Northwestern University 2 comments

A consideration of banality as a way to index habituated violence which is concealed in paradigms of violence-as-spectacle.

Bad Image, Good Art: Thinking through Banality
Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites / Northwestern University and Indiana University

October 30, 2011 Robert Hariman / Northwestern University 8 comments

The aesthetic of banality in the current economic crisis, and how it might offer an important resource for critical scholarship