Image Testimonies

Kerstin Schankweiler is an art historian and postdoctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center Affective Societies at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.Verena Straub is an art historian and research associate at the Collaborative Research Center Affective Societies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.Tobias Wendl is Professor for the Arts and Visual Cultures of Africa at the Institute of Art History, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

• Notes on ContributorsImage Testimonies: Witnessing in Times of Social Media – Kerstin Schankweiler, Verena Straub, Tobias Wendl PART I: EPISTEMOLOGIES OF TESTIMONIES Credibility in Crisis: Contradictions of Web Video Witnessing – Sascha Simons Affective Images and the Political Trial – Jonas Bens IN CONVERSATION: Fearless Filming—Video Footage from Syria since 2011 – Marianna Liosi with Guevara Namer and Amer MatarPART II: AFFECTIVE WITNESSING "Moroccan Lives Matter": Practices and Politics of Affecting – Kerstin Schankweiler Drone’s-Eye View: Affective Witnessing and Technicities of Perception – Michael Richardson PART III: SOCIAL MEDIA PRACTICES Photographic Witnessing, the Occupation, and Palestinian Politics – Simon Faulkner Witnessing to Survive: Selfie Videos, Live Mobile Witnessing and Black Necropolitics – Penelope Papailias Eye, Flesh, World: Three Modes of Digital Witnessing – Paul Frosh PART IV: WITNESSING DESTRUCTION "Living Martyrs": Testifying What is to Come – Verena Straub Testimonies for a New Social Order: The Islamic State’s Iconic Iconoclasm – Christoph Günther, Tom Bioly From Cape Town to Timbuktu: Iconoclastic Testimonies in the Age of Social Media – Tobias Wendl