Visual politics is a fast-growing field and much of it is focused on images that inspire criticism. This tendency results in a lack of attention to oppressive visual practices. A political visual literacy approaches all visual practices as being layered with different “visual truths” that were developed in response to political commitments over time. These “visual truths” inflected visual practices in ways that may outlive the political settings in which they were first articulated. Most important of these is the desire to capture human difference that framed the development of visual technologies and is still embedded in a range of visual practices. The methodology I develop here links a conjunctural analysis of visual tools and practices and the visual truths implicated in them with their operationalisation by actors as cultural tools through the framework of mediated action. I develop this approach by interrogating two layered and harmful visual practices: the White-centrism of visual technologies and the racialised origins of transphobic visualities in automatic gender recognition technology.

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政治视觉素养

视觉政治是一个快速发展的领域，其中大部分都集中在激发批评的图像上。这种倾向导致人们对压迫性视觉实践缺乏关注。政治视觉素养将所有视觉实践视为分层的不同“视觉真理”，这些真理是随着时间的推移而发展起来的，以响应政治承诺。这些“视觉真理”对视觉实践的影响可能比它们最初表达的政治环境更长久。其中最重要的是捕捉人类差异的愿望，这种差异构成了视觉技术的发展，并且仍然嵌入在一系列视觉实践中。我在这里开发的方法论将视觉工具和实践的结合分析以及其中所涉及的视觉真理与行为者通过中介行动框架作为文化工具的操作联系起来。我通过质疑两种分层且有害的视觉实践来开发这种方法：视觉技术的白人中心主义和自动性别识别技术中跨性别恐惧症视觉的种族化起源。