I find the elaborate nature of the violence at play in your example extremely reminiscent of the MTV show (and now three films) Jackass, which originally came out of the underground skate video scene, where people would perform stunts- usually painful one ...
Thanks for a great post on a very complex set of ethical issues surrounding a highly charged instance of how online circulation can complicate these issues further, especialy in light of how the images are handled by traditional news outlets. I'm cur ...
Yes, I think the distinctions made between how the incidents last year in India were received domestically point exactly to this question of whether or not there is a culture here that goes unacknowledged (I think, of course, the answer to this is obvious ...
Johnny and Tina, I have to say that the connections this post and response have brought out between traditional modes of image distribution and the way the internet and online sharing of video/images/etc. have perhaps changed that network are quite fascin ...
I find the British context of all of this to be the most fascinating point, honestly, which I think makes the need for a full work on this subject more obvious in the U.S. Here we had no "video nasties" and the industry was largely left to its s ...
Peter, I love this, especially as a wrap-up to a week which has seen our curators call into question the ethics of viewing violence, the mythologizing of "reality" even when the object we are seeking may not exist, and the widespread circulation ...
I'm curious about the soundtrack and its presentation in the gallery space. The post suggests that the track (and thus the explosion) is loud and resonating. Could you discuss that a bit more if you know about the actual circumstances of exhibition? ...
I'm curious as to how the destruction of locale functions in either current iterations of the band, or with its prominent former frontman Henry Rollins being such a mainstay of popular culture. Rollins in particular interests me because he still seem ...
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Underground Skate vids and MTV's Jackass
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