Preface : read, don't move -- Introduction : without intention, the end of this world -- Expression -- Property's proscenium -- Property's horizon -- Property's edge -- Expressionless.
Summary:
"Through close attention to the centrality of involuntarity in pivotal nineteenth-century American court cases that created new property relations with photographs, this book offers a historically situated theory of photography in terms of expression and an archivally-supported theory of whiteness as an aesthetics of racial capitalism"-- Provided by publisher.
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