Images, Emotions, Politics

The emotions least relevant to politics? Queering autonomous activism

Studies of emotion and activism have often attempted to uncover ‘the emotions most relevant to politics’ (Goodwin et al., 2001). This suggests that only certain feelings are productive for activism, while other emotions have less relevance for activist theory and practice. In this paper I ask if the notion of politically ‘relevant’ emotions helps perpetuate a distinction between what is conside...

The Rhetorical - Aesthetic Approach to Constructing the Relation between Images and Visual Inventions with Global Politics

Images and photos play an important role in our understanding of domestic and international events. Today we are living in the age of the visualization of politics. The images are vague, rhetorical, and aesthetic components of political and social phenomena and can give them a beautiful or detestable structure. In the digital age, images in and of themselves can define our structure and vision ...

After/images of Identity: Gender, Technology, and Identity Politics

Content Based Retrieval of Emotions in Face Images

Content-based image retrieval is an important area of research involving techniques of image processing, information retrieval, and data mining. Mathematical morphology is a powerful set of tools in image processing and normally used for filtering, shape description etc.. Sequence data mining and clustering are the popular data mining techniques that are successfully applied to varieties of app...

On Aesthetics and Emotions in Images: A Computational Perspective

In this chapter, we discuss the problem of computational inference of aesthetics and emotions from images. We draw inspiration from diverse disciplines such as philosophy, photography, art, and psychology to define and understand the key concepts of aesthetics and emotions. We introduce the primary computational problems that the research community has been striving to solve and the computation...