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The recent, global protests against military aggression in Iraq, in tandem with other growing protest movements, are one example of visual, social resistance to a specific, historical trajectory. But there are, of course, other instances of resistance, where the conflict is not so visually well defined. It is important to look at these occurrences of conflict that receive less attention from our collective optic nerve, as forms of resistance can emerge that encourage authoritarian thought, trading one form of subjugation for another.... The works included here give some entrance points for such conflict to enter our retinas. This is not an attempt to create a "correct" reading for these works, or to "speak" for them, but is merely a desire to provide a specific set of lenses with which to view them.