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every surface. e paintings, scrolls, screen, video, post-
cards with text, word lists, laser-cut texts, installations,
watercolours and book covers offer negative spaces for

critically thinking what it means (what it meant) to lose
a horizon, for good and ill. America and Asia as visually
constructed imaginaries vanish down the perspectival
hole Morley erases, reinvokes and re-visions.

Aer an horizon is lost, all we can do is chose a surface
upon which to make new ones . . . or not.

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Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Arts and Politics at Winchester School
of Art, the University of Southampton. His most recent books include:
Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film, Edinburgh University Press, 2013
e City as Target, co-edited with Greg Clancey and John Phillips, Routledge, 2011
Modernist Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Contemporary Military Technology,
co-authored with John Phillips, Edinburgh University Press, 2010
Baudrillard Now, Polity Press, 2009