Politics In Excess of Evidence police Oscar Grant Jacques Ranciere cellphone witness aesthetics Curator's Note A recent This American Life Episode ("How Cops See It, pt.2", 2/13/2015) begins with producer Robyn Semien relaying her experienc ...
First, what a terrific post and conversation! I wanted to briefly respond to/build on Alessandra's suggestion--insistence?--that blackness be a part of the humanities as such. I think this is essential to any truly critical and radical humanities, th ...
One aspect that, to some extent, follows from the relationship and potential difference between superhumanization and dehumanization is the difference in image types. That is, in the descriptive language used by Darren Wilson, as well as in relation to Er ...
These examples seem like potential responses to Ben Brucato's post on the relationship between recording and intervention. Here these women utilize the cell phone camera to intervene in media res, as it were. Of course this comes with a slew of its o ...
This is perhaps the most salient and dire role for mobile video and communication technology, especially with the constantly increasing availability and centrality of cellular phones throughout the world. As you point out, Vyshali, these "accidental ...
This is an important provocation indeed. Obviously there is no clear answer here, which is why my immediate impulse is to move away from ethics to politics. It seems to me that politics provides a framework for seeing intervention as more multifaceted tha ...
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Suspension as (anti)method
Spectacular bodies/spectacular images
Witness or intervention
Authentication procedures
Is recording an intervention itself?