As with the comics I focus on below, Safer Sex Comix worked as a site of sexual literacy via multimodal rhetoric, including linguistic, visual, gestural, and spatial modes. Offering an revolutionary method to the scientific picture-making of the time, he demonstrates how the Restoration undertaking of synthesizing experimental photos into scientific information, as practiced by Royal Society leaders Robert Hooke and Christopher Wren, is likely to be called “wicked intelligence.” Hunter uses episodes involving particular visual practices-for instance, concocting a lethal amalgam of wax, steel, and sulfuric acid to provide an active model of a comet-to explore how Hooke, Wren, and their colleagues devised representational modes that aided their experiments. Painstakingly crafted and highly naturalistic photographs of interiors, these peculiar paintings show spaces that have been purged of visible imagery throughout and after the iconoclast riots of the sixteenth century. Bringing together worldwide students from varied disciplines, “Precarious Visualities” examines the transformation of our relation to photographs in contemporary visible culture.
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