Wendy Kozol
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816681297
- eISBN:
- 9781452948676
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816681297.003.0001
- Subject:
- Art, Art Theory and Criticism
The Introduction contextualizes the topic of the book and gives an overview of the chapters.
The Introduction contextualizes the topic of the book and gives an overview of the chapters.
Wendy Kozol
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816681297
- eISBN:
- 9781452948676
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816681297.001.0001
- Subject:
- Art, Art Theory and Criticism
Distant Wars Visible brings a new perspective to the enduring question about the efficacy of conflict photography and other forms of visual advocacy. In the twenty-first century, visuality has been a ...
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Distant Wars Visible brings a new perspective to the enduring question about the efficacy of conflict photography and other forms of visual advocacy. In the twenty-first century, visuality has been a pivotal technology in the United States’ militaristic pursuit of its national security objectives as well as in critiques of the nation at war. This book analyzes both mainstream media and alternative and radical visual projects to understand how representations of U.S. militarism navigate in, through, and around national security logics. Visual witnessing, I argue, often remains bound up in national security agendas even as it may stretch beyond those agendas into other terrains of possibility. In the past several years, important new studies have been published about human rights, militarism and visual cultures. In conversation with these texts, this book’s interdisciplinary critical feminist approach consider how factors like gender, race and sexuality construct often competing visualizations of identity in a range of media from graphic narrative and film to conflict photography and battlefield souvenirs. The analytic of ambivalence offers a critical methodological approach that examines how contingencies and contradictions in visual culture shape the politics and ethics of witnessing. Distant Wars Visible’s main objective is to gain further insights into how the ethical imperative that motivates the desire to look at human insecurities in times of warfare is intimately bound up in the politics of recognition.Less
Distant Wars Visible brings a new perspective to the enduring question about the efficacy of conflict photography and other forms of visual advocacy. In the twenty-first century, visuality has been a pivotal technology in the United States’ militaristic pursuit of its national security objectives as well as in critiques of the nation at war. This book analyzes both mainstream media and alternative and radical visual projects to understand how representations of U.S. militarism navigate in, through, and around national security logics. Visual witnessing, I argue, often remains bound up in national security agendas even as it may stretch beyond those agendas into other terrains of possibility. In the past several years, important new studies have been published about human rights, militarism and visual cultures. In conversation with these texts, this book’s interdisciplinary critical feminist approach consider how factors like gender, race and sexuality construct often competing visualizations of identity in a range of media from graphic narrative and film to conflict photography and battlefield souvenirs. The analytic of ambivalence offers a critical methodological approach that examines how contingencies and contradictions in visual culture shape the politics and ethics of witnessing. Distant Wars Visible’s main objective is to gain further insights into how the ethical imperative that motivates the desire to look at human insecurities in times of warfare is intimately bound up in the politics of recognition.
Wendy Kozol
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816681297
- eISBN:
- 9781452948676
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816681297.003.0006
- Subject:
- Art, Art Theory and Criticism
This chapter analyzes five reparative projects about military conflicts that engage with the affective pleasures and pains of historical witnessing. These projects confront the limits of ...
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This chapter analyzes five reparative projects about military conflicts that engage with the affective pleasures and pains of historical witnessing. These projects confront the limits of representation – the selective memories, mediating forces, and often-unrecoverable accounts of suffering that comprise ambivalent witnessing – that, in turn, evince ethical forms of spectatorship.Less
This chapter analyzes five reparative projects about military conflicts that engage with the affective pleasures and pains of historical witnessing. These projects confront the limits of representation – the selective memories, mediating forces, and often-unrecoverable accounts of suffering that comprise ambivalent witnessing – that, in turn, evince ethical forms of spectatorship.
Wendy Kozol
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816681297
- eISBN:
- 9781452948676
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816681297.003.0002
- Subject:
- Art, Art Theory and Criticism
This chapter analyzes the ideal of transnational motherhood in photojournalism’s coverage of the NATO bombings to address the conundrum for media witnessing between the need for publicity and the ...
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This chapter analyzes the ideal of transnational motherhood in photojournalism’s coverage of the NATO bombings to address the conundrum for media witnessing between the need for publicity and the dangers of spectacle. A discussion of a photo-installation project about war trauma in Kosovo/a confronts this conundrum in media witnessing of ethnic conflict through the lens of in/visibility.Less
This chapter analyzes the ideal of transnational motherhood in photojournalism’s coverage of the NATO bombings to address the conundrum for media witnessing between the need for publicity and the dangers of spectacle. A discussion of a photo-installation project about war trauma in Kosovo/a confronts this conundrum in media witnessing of ethnic conflict through the lens of in/visibility.
Wendy Kozol
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816681297
- eISBN:
- 9781452948676
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816681297.003.0005
- Subject:
- Art, Art Theory and Criticism
This chapter explores the ways in which archives that bear the traces of military violence set up ambivalent affective demands for those who turn to photographic archives in pursuit of evidence. I ...
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This chapter explores the ways in which archives that bear the traces of military violence set up ambivalent affective demands for those who turn to photographic archives in pursuit of evidence. I propose witnessing strategies that encourage a self-reflexive engagement with spectatorship and the ethical challenges of historical accountability.Less
This chapter explores the ways in which archives that bear the traces of military violence set up ambivalent affective demands for those who turn to photographic archives in pursuit of evidence. I propose witnessing strategies that encourage a self-reflexive engagement with spectatorship and the ethical challenges of historical accountability.
Wendy Kozol
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816681297
- eISBN:
- 9781452948676
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816681297.003.0003
- Subject:
- Art, Art Theory and Criticism
This chapter further analyzes the ambivalences of media witnessing through a study of the visual rhetorics of women’s human rights in Associated Press photographs of Afghan women caught up in the War ...
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This chapter further analyzes the ambivalences of media witnessing through a study of the visual rhetorics of women’s human rights in Associated Press photographs of Afghan women caught up in the War on Terror. I critique visual encounters with spectacles of Orientalism to consider the possibilities of recognition within human rights discourse.Less
This chapter further analyzes the ambivalences of media witnessing through a study of the visual rhetorics of women’s human rights in Associated Press photographs of Afghan women caught up in the War on Terror. I critique visual encounters with spectacles of Orientalism to consider the possibilities of recognition within human rights discourse.
Wendy Kozol
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816681297
- eISBN:
- 9781452948676
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816681297.003.0004
- Subject:
- Art, Art Theory and Criticism
This chapter considers how the militarized gaze calls upon American citizens to witness the national surveillance regime through a framework of precarity. Virtual wars on missile defense advocacy ...
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This chapter considers how the militarized gaze calls upon American citizens to witness the national surveillance regime through a framework of precarity. Virtual wars on missile defense advocacy websites redeploy the fearful logics of the War on Terror to hail witnesses within a self-ascribed mandate to protect global democracy. I compare the visual logics of U.S. territorial expansion in Space on these websites to a radical visual critique of the U.S. surveillance regime.Less
This chapter considers how the militarized gaze calls upon American citizens to witness the national surveillance regime through a framework of precarity. Virtual wars on missile defense advocacy websites redeploy the fearful logics of the War on Terror to hail witnesses within a self-ascribed mandate to protect global democracy. I compare the visual logics of U.S. territorial expansion in Space on these websites to a radical visual critique of the U.S. surveillance regime.
Wendy Kozol
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816681297
- eISBN:
- 9781452948676
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816681297.003.0007
- Subject:
- Art, Art Theory and Criticism
The newest visual technology of U.S. warfare to be made public is the covert drone program. In this conclusion, I discuss visual representations of drone warfare as a further opportunity to consider ...
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The newest visual technology of U.S. warfare to be made public is the covert drone program. In this conclusion, I discuss visual representations of drone warfare as a further opportunity to consider the broader significance of ambivalent witnessing.Less
The newest visual technology of U.S. warfare to be made public is the covert drone program. In this conclusion, I discuss visual representations of drone warfare as a further opportunity to consider the broader significance of ambivalent witnessing.
