Global Visual Cultures : Paradox and Comparison -- Sight becomes Vision : From al-Haytham to Perspective -- "1492" : Expulsions, Expropriations, Encounters -- Slavery, Modernity and Visual Culture -- Panoptic Modernity -- Imperial Transcultures : From Kongo to Congo -- Sexuality Disrupts : Measuring the Silences -- Inventing the West -- Decolonizing Visions -- Discrete States: Digital Worlds from the Difference Engine to Web 2.0 -- The Death of the Death of Photography -- Celebrity : From Imperial Monarchy to Reality TV -- Watching War.