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Visual Occupations
LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA
Gil Hochberg has written a terrific new book, “Visual Occupations: Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone,” and Dr. Hochberg will present the book at the Levantine Cultural Center on Thursday, May 27th, 7 pm.
Writes Ted Swedenberg, “Gil Z. Hochberg’s brilliant and lucidly written text provides a vivid analysis of the sharp limits on visibility in Palestine/Israel. The expulsions of Palestinians in 1948 are invisible in Israel, and yet they continue to haunt its citizens and mobilize Palestinian resistance. Palestinians under occupation are hyper-visible, as victims and militants, and they seek both non-spectacular images and a measure of opacity. Through her critical readings of an array of Palestinian and Israeli artistic works, Hochberg offers other ways of looking and being seen in this vastly unequal field of visibility.” —Ted Swedenberg, coeditor of “Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture”