Krista Lynes
Biographic Data
| ID | 907773 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Krista Lynes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Krista |
| FAMILY NAME | Lynes |
| SIGNATURE | LYNES K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5126-4108 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Forensic and humanitarian frames
This paper examines the visual culture of mediating migration as a “crisis,” arguing that responses to the movement of peoples (especially into the Global North) is animated by two frames: the forensic and the humanitarian. While these appear to be contradictory image regimes—one relying on data, maps and metrics, the other on iconic portraits of human suffering—the paper argues that it is the vacillation between these two poles that creates the …
Pollination and the Horrors of Yield
Pollination is a lynchpin anchoring multispecies survival, but in the racial capitalist configurations of condensed environment agriculture, pollination politics are informed by life-depleting and carceral logics, as well as imaginaries steeped in racial hierarchies and sex binaries that ground future survival in colonial, heteropatriarchal, and normative terms. This article argues that pollination politics are focused on intensifying agriculture…
How Like a Leaf
While commercial greenhouses are built as architectures to temper (climactic) precarity, this article argues that precarity abounds in the ripening conditions they enfold. Contemporary greenhouses harness the energy of the internet of things, precision agriculture, and artificial intelligence to manage inputs and outputs for optimal growth. Such growth, however, is often premised on the exploitation of racialized and gendered labor, an overlooked…
Moving Images
In recent years, spectacular images of ruined boats, makeshift border camps, and beaches littered with life vests have done much to consolidate the politics of movement in Europe. Indeed, the mediation of migration as a crisis has worked to shore up various forms of militarized surveillance, humanitarian response, legislative action, and affective investment. Bridging academic inquiry and artistic and activist practice, the essays, documents, and…
Decolonizing Corporeality
The violence in Mexico is frequently signified in documentary images by the visibility of the corpse, which abstracts the social conditions of disenfranchisement and vulnerability parsed unevenly on the basis of gender and sexuality. Specifically with respect to missing and murdered women across the Americas, the corpse frequently comes to signify abstract violence itself rather than the social conditions of disenfranchisement and vulnerability t…
Drowned at sea
On November 5 2017, the Spanish ship Cantabria docked in the port of Salerno, in southern Italy. The ship, a vessel in the European Union’s Operation Sophia “anti-trafficking” program, carried 375
Global Pictures
This essay examines the role played by political and activist media, as well as media infrastructures and platforms, in creating solidarity or continuity between the Arab Spring, the Occupy Movement, Indignados and the ‘Printemps Erable,’ among others. It critiques the overvaluation of social media in organizing protests and creating solidarity between social movements, demonstrating the renewal of discourses of the “global village” on which such…
Prismatic Media, Transnational Circuits
What are the political and aesthetic dimensions of video art, documentary, and global cinema in contemporary image culture? Lynes makes visible how sites of political struggle, exploitation, and armed
Visual Currencies
This article explores how artists and documentarists wrestle with representing the conditions and causes of sexual exploitation in India’s red-light districts. It compares three works: Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski’s popular documentary Born into Brothels (2004) and the artist Elahe Massumi’s multichannel video installations The Hijras (2000) and A Kiss Is Not a Kiss (2000). The analysis examines how each work defines a specific site of sexual ex…
Perversions of Modesty
This article examines the ethics of observation in Lars von Trier's The Five Obstructions, and particularly how the fantasy of ‘the most miserable place on earth’ acts to frame a transnational politics of representation. At stake here are critical ethical questions about how subjects are encountered, what historical, social and political conditions frame image‐making, and what shape witnessing relations take through the mediation of visual techno…
Drowned at sea
On November 5 2017, the Spanish ship Cantabria docked in the port of Salerno, in southern Italy. The ship, a vessel in the European Union’s Operation Sophia “anti-trafficking” program, carried 375
Visual Currencies
This article explores how artists and documentarists wrestle with representing the conditions and causes of sexual exploitation in India’s red-light districts. It compares three works: Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski’s popular documentary Born into Brothels (2004) and the artist Elahe Massumi’s multichannel video installations The Hijras (2000) and A Kiss Is Not a Kiss (2000). The analysis examines how each work defines a specific site of sexual ex…
Perversions of Modesty
This article examines the ethics of observation in Lars von Trier's The Five Obstructions, and particularly how the fantasy of ‘the most miserable place on earth’ acts to frame a transnational politics of representation. At stake here are critical ethical questions about how subjects are encountered, what historical, social and political conditions frame image‐making, and what shape witnessing relations take through the mediation of visual techno…
Perversions of Modesty
This article examines the ethics of observation in Lars von Trier's The Five Obstructions, and particularly how the fantasy of ‘the most miserable place on earth’ acts to frame a transnational politics of representation. At stake here are critical ethical questions about how subjects are encountered, what historical, social and political conditions frame image‐making, and what shape witnessing relations take through the mediation of visual techno…
Visual Currencies
This article explores how artists and documentarists wrestle with representing the conditions and causes of sexual exploitation in India’s red-light districts. It compares three works: Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski’s popular documentary Born into Brothels (2004) and the artist Elahe Massumi’s multichannel video installations The Hijras (2000) and A Kiss Is Not a Kiss (2000). The analysis examines how each work defines a specific site of sexual ex…
Prismatic Media, Transnational Circuits
What are the political and aesthetic dimensions of video art, documentary, and global cinema in contemporary image culture? Lynes makes visible how sites of political struggle, exploitation, and armed
Global Pictures
This essay examines the role played by political and activist media, as well as media infrastructures and platforms, in creating solidarity or continuity between the Arab Spring, the Occupy Movement, Indignados and the ‘Printemps Erable,’ among others. It critiques the overvaluation of social media in organizing protests and creating solidarity between social movements, demonstrating the renewal of discourses of the “global village” on which such…
Drowned at sea
On November 5 2017, the Spanish ship Cantabria docked in the port of Salerno, in southern Italy. The ship, a vessel in the European Union’s Operation Sophia “anti-trafficking” program, carried 375
Decolonizing Corporeality
The violence in Mexico is frequently signified in documentary images by the visibility of the corpse, which abstracts the social conditions of disenfranchisement and vulnerability parsed unevenly on the basis of gender and sexuality. Specifically with respect to missing and murdered women across the Americas, the corpse frequently comes to signify abstract violence itself rather than the social conditions of disenfranchisement and vulnerability t…
Moving Images
In recent years, spectacular images of ruined boats, makeshift border camps, and beaches littered with life vests have done much to consolidate the politics of movement in Europe. Indeed, the mediation of migration as a crisis has worked to shore up various forms of militarized surveillance, humanitarian response, legislative action, and affective investment. Bridging academic inquiry and artistic and activist practice, the essays, documents, and…
Pollination and the Horrors of Yield
Pollination is a lynchpin anchoring multispecies survival, but in the racial capitalist configurations of condensed environment agriculture, pollination politics are informed by life-depleting and carceral logics, as well as imaginaries steeped in racial hierarchies and sex binaries that ground future survival in colonial, heteropatriarchal, and normative terms. This article argues that pollination politics are focused on intensifying agriculture…
How Like a Leaf
While commercial greenhouses are built as architectures to temper (climactic) precarity, this article argues that precarity abounds in the ripening conditions they enfold. Contemporary greenhouses harness the energy of the internet of things, precision agriculture, and artificial intelligence to manage inputs and outputs for optimal growth. Such growth, however, is often premised on the exploitation of racialized and gendered labor, an overlooked…
Forensic and humanitarian frames
This paper examines the visual culture of mediating migration as a “crisis,” arguing that responses to the movement of peoples (especially into the Global North) is animated by two frames: the forensic and the humanitarian. While these appear to be contradictory image regimes—one relying on data, maps and metrics, the other on iconic portraits of human suffering—the paper argues that it is the vacillation between these two poles that creates the …
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Biology (2 works)