Readings Due: Finish Regeneration; read short introduction to Ernst Friedrich, War against War (1924).
Lecture will address Friedrich's captioned photographs representing battlefield atrocities of WWI.
War photographs: shock & the limits of sympathy (cont.)
Readings Due: Jordan Crandall, "On Warfare and Representation"
Susan Sontag, "Regarding the Torture of Others," New York Times Magazine (May 23, 2004)
Judith Butler, "Photography, War, Outrage"
Girvetz 1004 | 7:00-10:00 p.m. Students unable to attend the Tuesday night screening of Apocalypse Now (Dir. Francis Ford Coppola; 1979) should make alternate arrangements to see the film.
Girvetz 1004 | 7:00-9:00 p.m. Students unable to attend the Tuesday night screening of No Man's Land (Dir. Danis Tanovic; 2001) should make alternate arrangements to see the film.
Wed, 11/2
Neighbors & enemies (cont.)
Readings Due: Joe Sacco, Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995
Girvetz 1004 | 7:00-9:00 p.m. Students unable to attend the Tuesday night screening of West Beirut (Dir. Ziad Doueiri; 1988) should make alternate arrangements to see the film.
Wed, 11/9
Captivity narratives (cont.)
Readings Due: Etel Adnan, Sitt Marie Rose
Recommended Readings: Atlas Group: The Souheil Bachar File (multi-part videotape about "the western hostage crisis") and Fadl Fakhouri file, Notebook Volume 38 (a notebook of 145 photographs of cars corresponding to "the exact make, model, and color of every car that was used as a car bomb during the civil wars of 1975-1990")
Mon, 11/14
War machines
Manuel De Landa, War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (1991): Introduction; numbered series of 'black pages' (pp. 16-17, 44-45, 52-53, etc.); pp. 57-83
Wed, 11/16
Optical surveillance
Readings Due: Manuel De Landa, War in the Age of Intelligent Machines: Chapter Three, "Policing the Spectrum" (pp. 179-231)
Paul Virilio, "The Sight Machine," from War and Cinema
Readings Due: John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, Networks and Netwars, chapter one (RAND publication)
Excerpts from "Defense Planning Guidance" (1992 classified document prepared under then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney)