[Commlist] New book: Challenging the visual: Distrust, emergency, uncertainty

NEW BOOK PUBLICATION: CHALLENGING THE VISUAL: DISTRUST, EMERGENCY, 
UNCERTAINTY. Mutaciones de los Motivos Visuales en la Esfera Pública.

*New book publication* CHALLENGING THE VISUAL: DISTRUST, EMERGENCY, 
UNCERTAINTY. Mutaciones de los Motivos Visuales en la Esfera Pública 
<https://www.upf.edu/documents/245072422/300090473/Challenging_finalv3.pdf/2a9b03c0-f535-7a3c-d8a3-da00a99bc3f6?t=1747048405454>
(Eds) Ivan Pintor Iranzo, Glòria Salvadó-Corretger, Carolina Sourdis.
Editorial Pompeu Fabra (ISBN: 978-84-09-68531-8)

*Challenging the Visual. Distrust, Emergency, Uncertainty. Mutaciones de 
los Motivos Visuales en la Esfera Pública* is a collective volume that 
examines recent transformations in visual representation within the 
public sphere, shaped by the environmental crisis, racial conflicts, the 
reconfiguration of gender identities, media hyper-representation, and 
the advancement of digital technologies. Adopting a critical and 
multidisciplinary perspective, the book offers an in-depth analysis of 
the power of images and their role in shaping political, social, and 
affective experiences, particularly in contexts marked by conflict, 
crisis, and misinformation. The volume has been edited by Ivan Pintor 
Iranzo, Glòria Salvadó-Corretger, and Carolina Sourdis, within the 
framework of the research project *MUMOVEP. Mutations of Visual Motifs 
in the Public Sphere* (REF: PID2021-126930OB-I00) of the *CINEMA* 
research group of Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.

Organized into four sections: visual motifs in cinema, iconography and 
crisis, fashion and deepfakes, and political activism, the volume 
gathers contributions from *Mercedes Burgos Martínez, Doriana 
Bruccoleri, Raymond Drainville, Elena García Núñez, Ona Garcia Milián, 
Silvia Lavanco Livreri, Mo Li, Juan M. Pardo, Aleix Rodríguez, Iara 
Rossetti Musso, *and *Manu Yáñez*. Their essays explore a range of 
topics, from the visualities of activism and ruins to papal deep fakes 
and the aesthetics of discontent, addressing images as symbolic 
constructs imbued with power, memory, and social urgency.

The book is the result of an international collaboration among 
researchers affiliated with academic institutions in Spain, Italy, and 
Canada, initiated during the *II International Conference on Visual 
Motifs in the Public Sphere.* The contributors invite a critical 
engagement with the images that saturate our daily lives and call for a 
reconsideration of visuality’s role in a world increasingly dominated by 
representations and urgencies.

Full access at: 
https://www.upf.edu/documents/245072422/300090473/Challenging_finalv3.pdf/2a9b03c0-f535-7a3c-d8a3-da00a99bc3f6?t=1747048405454 
<https://www.upf.edu/documents/245072422/300090473/Challenging_finalv3.pdf/2a9b03c0-f535-7a3c-d8a3-da00a99bc3f6?t=1747048405454>


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