“ ‘Ça bousculait !’ The Democratization of Photography in Francophone West Africa.” Photography in Africa: Ethnographic Perspectives. Ed. Richard Vokes. Oxford: James Currey, 2012. 140-185.
“Jane Alexander’s Anti-Anthropomorphic Photographs.” Angelaki: The Theoretical Journal of the Humanities. Special issue ed. Andrew Benjamin. Vol. 16, No. 21 (March 2011): 79-96.
“The State in Visual Matters.” Introduction to special section on “Recent Photography Theory.” Theory, Culture & Society. Vol. 27, Nos. 7-8 (2010): 155-160.
“Eye on Bamako: Conversations on the African Photography Biennial.” Co-authored with Erin Haney. Theory, Culture & Society. Vol. 27, Nos. 7-8 (2010): 263-284.
“Of Jumbled Valises and Civil Society: Photography and Political Imagination in Senegal.” History and Anthropology. Special issue ed. Richard Vokes and Marcus Banks. Vol. 21, No. 4 (2010): 435-456.
“Photography and National Memory: Senegal about 1960.” History of Photography. Special issue ed. Sylvester Ogbechie and John Peffer. Vol. 34, No. 2 (2010): 160-171.
“(Dis)locating Freedom: The Photographic Portraiture of Seydou Keïta.” Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art and Visual Culture 3/4 (Spring 2009): 89-103.
“Flat Gazes, Uneven Geographies: Guy Tillim’s Jo’burg.” Representation and Spatial Practices in Urban South Africa. Ed. Leora Farber. Johannesburg: Faculty of Art, Design, and Architecture, University of Johannesburg, 2008. 159-166.
“Insert into Blankness: Poetry and Cultural Memory in Benjamin’s Baudelaire Interpretation.” Qui Parle (Spring/Summer 2007): 97-130.
“Holding Fast to Ruins: The Air War in Brecht’s Kriegsfibel.” Wilfried Wilms and William Rasch, eds. Bombs Away: Representing the Air War over Europe and Japan. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. 97-111.
“Holding Fast to Ruins” republished: Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, War Primer 2. Digital ed. London: MAPP, 2012.
“The Offices of Homeland Security, or, Hölderlin’s Terrorism.” Critical Inquiry 31 (2005): 874-902. “Animadversions: Tekhne after Capital/Life after Work.” Diacritics 33.1 (Spring 2003): 42-59.