HASTAC Commons | Gustavo Racy | Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/gustavoracy/activity/ Activity feed for Gustavo Racy. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:18:09 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 f15dc376390e30f0d390ac5e3061a5ad Gustavo Racy's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1851402/ Mon, 10 Jul 2023 14:46:36 +0000 0 d1c89d1c258af8f725b5bca7e3c3d950 Gustavo Racy deposited Of Cannibals and Witches: Monstrosity and Capitalism at the Onset of Colonial Visual Culture in the group Visual Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834287/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:28:35 +0000 This article provides preliminary insight into the creation of colonial visual culture. Using visual examples, the author shows how the encounter between European and Amerindian was, at first, apparently deprived of moral judgement, later being increasingly signified through moral and physical monstrosity, especially the female body, which served…[Read more]

]]> 0 e67b44057bf9a98ffbdb548b7c6f71b2 Gustavo Racy deposited Of Cannibals and Witches: Monstrosity and Capitalism at the Onset of Colonial Visual Culture in the group Visual Anthropology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834286/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:28:34 +0000 This article provides preliminary insight into the creation of colonial visual culture. Using visual examples, the author shows how the encounter between European and Amerindian was, at first, apparently deprived of moral judgement, later being increasingly signified through moral and physical monstrosity, especially the female body, which served…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f49488e1b522f819389a056a7778f49 Gustavo Racy deposited To Make See and to Let Die: photography and testimony in the group Visual Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834285/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:28:34 +0000 The focus of this article is a speculative argument on the relation between photography and testimony as one that situates the viewer on a particularly powerless, but responsibility-laden position. Articulating Nilufër Demir’s viral 2015 photograph of Aylan Kurdi, and Walter Kleinfeldt’s 1918 photograph of an unknown fallen soldier, as images bear…[Read more]

]]> 0 4eb7c8bced9f81721413e317f0600904 Gustavo Racy deposited To Make See and to Let Die: photography and testimony in the group Visual Anthropology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834284/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:28:33 +0000 The focus of this article is a speculative argument on the relation between photography and testimony as one that situates the viewer on a particularly powerless, but responsibility-laden position. Articulating Nilufër Demir’s viral 2015 photograph of Aylan Kurdi, and Walter Kleinfeldt’s 1918 photograph of an unknown fallen soldier, as images bear…[Read more]

]]> 0 0c607a0f35131d9de10883e210988961 Gustavo Racy deposited The Photographer as Producer: on photography in the group Visual Anthropology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834283/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:28:32 +0000 The current article focuses on the approach to Walter Benjamin’s theory of the author as producer, narrowing it down to the case of photography. In the attempt to both expanding and testing Benjamin’s theory, the article speculates through an approach ranging from philosophy to visual culture propos-ing, at its end, a photographic principle in tun…[Read more]

]]> 0 487a4b15cd1d405ba3d7bf84945f960f Gustavo Racy deposited The Photographer as Producer: on photography in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834282/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:28:28 +0000 The current article focuses on the approach to Walter Benjamin’s theory of the author as producer, narrowing it down to the case of photography. In the attempt to both expanding and testing Benjamin’s theory, the article speculates through an approach ranging from philosophy to visual culture propos-ing, at its end, a photographic principle in tun…[Read more]

]]> 0 c88838c65c2b17b972d0fc58cf52e9c0 Gustavo Racy deposited Of Cannibals and Witches: Monstrosity and Capitalism at the Onset of Colonial Visual Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833691/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 13:51:51 +0000 This article provides preliminary insight into the creation of colonial visual culture. Using visual examples, the author shows how the encounter between European and Amerindian was, at first, apparently deprived of moral judgement, later being increasingly signified through moral and physical monstrosity, especially the female body, which served…[Read more]

]]> 0 4874dfdb14a3633533ed0eac05580c7a Gustavo Racy deposited To Make See and to Let Die: photography and testimony https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833690/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 13:47:57 +0000 The focus of this article is a speculative argument on the relation between
photography and testimony as one that situates the viewer on a particularly
powerless, but responsibility-laden position. Articulating Nilufër Demir’s viral
2015 photograph of Aylan Kurdi, and Walter Kleinfeldt’s 1918 photograph of an
unknown fallen soldier, as imag…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4e1d8174367d47956e70956f50b565f Gustavo Racy created the group Visual Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833689/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 13:44:34 +0000 0 10fe53673e1c2a6f54e2a06693c7499f Gustavo Racy deposited The Photographer as Producer: on photography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833686/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 13:36:55 +0000 The current article focuses on the approach to Walter Benjamin’s theory of the author as producer, narrowing it down to the case of photography. In the attempt to both expanding and testing Benjamin’s theory, the article speculates through an approach ranging from philosophy to visual culture propos-ing, at its end, a pho…[Read more]

]]> 0 2d78341d70b5bee645dab04a2e03de5f Gustavo Racy's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1765988/ Wed, 12 Jan 2022 13:45:09 +0000 0 6f8c19fcc26c1a657f69192038a48b45 Gustavo Racy changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1765987/ Wed, 12 Jan 2022 13:39:00 +0000 0