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Archives of the Insensible - Of War, Photopolitics, and Dead Memory (Paperback)
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Archives of the Insensible - Of War, Photopolitics, and Dead Memory (Paperback)
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In this jarring look at contemporary warfare and political
visuality, renowned anthropologist of violence Allen Feldman
provocatively argues that contemporary sovereign power mobilizes
asymmetric, clandestine, and ultimately unending war as a will to
truth. Whether responding to the fantasy of weapons of mass
destruction or an existential threat to civilization, Western
political sovereignty seeks to align justice, humanitarian right,
and democracy with technocratic violence and visual dominance.
Connecting Guantanamo tribunals to the South African Truth and
Reconciliation Commission, American counterfeit killings in
Afghanistan to the Baader-Meinhof paintings of Gerhard Richter, and
the video erasure of Rodney King to lynching photography and
political animality, among other scenes of terror, Feldman contests
sovereignty's claims to transcendental right -whether humanitarian,
neoliberal, or democratic-by showing how dogmatic truth is crafted
and terror indemnified by the prosecutorial media and materiality
of war. Excavating a scenography of trials-formal or covert,
orchestrated or improvised, criminalizing or criminal-Feldman shows
how the will to truth disappears into the very violence it
interrogates. He maps the sensory inscriptions and erasures of war,
highlighting war as a media that severs factuality from actuality
to render violence just. He proposes that war promotes an
anesthesiology that interdicts the witness of a sensory and
affective commons that has the capacity to speak truth to war.
Feldman uses layered deconstructive description to decelerate the
ballistical tempo of war to salvage the embodied actualities and
material histories that war reduces to the ashes of collateral
damage, the automatism of drones, and the opacities of black sites.
The result is a penetrating work that marries critical visual
theory, political philosophy, anthropology, and media archeology
into a trenchant dissection of emerging forms of sovereignty and
state power that war now makes possible.
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