• Rose thinks there are 5 major points from current debates on visual culture that are important for understanding how images work. What are they?

1. Levelling Fallacy
2. image turning fallacy
3. Technological Modernity Fallacy
4. Media Fallacy
5. daily power fallacy

Visual culture does not necessarily make the difference between art and non-art disappear; visual culture is the cultural product of all mankind, not the product of Western Modernity; There is no such thing as pure visual media; all media are mixed media; Visual Culture and visual images are intermediaries in social interaction and can not be seen as visual hegemony

 American artist Dana Schutz

• what you think of Schutz’s use of Emmett Till’s image? Are you offended? Do you think it should be destroyed? Why or why not? 

The picture shows a corpse in a coffin in a black and white suit. Because of the power of racial violence. I don’t think it should be destroyed. Because it presents a very real problem. It’s America’s problem. It’s also a matter of race. This painting of hers is a way to keep people from forgetting

 What item exemplifies these kinds of trade networks and exploitation today? 

The landlord wants to collect the land rent, the taxes paid are embezzled, the bus is used for personal use, the hard work shift salary is not enough to eat and drink, the shopping is faked, the price increase salary has not changed for several years, the money used for study and education can not be earned back for several years.