Readings Due: Pat Barker, Regeneration (1991)

Readings Due: Pat Barker, Regeneration
Siegfried Sassoon, "Survivors" (Craiglockhart, October 1917)
Wilfred Owen, "Anthem for Doomed Youth"; "Dulce et Decorum Est" ; and "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young"

Recommended Readings: Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive (browse contemporary photos & video) and Siegfried Sassoon site | Robert Graves, "A Dead Boche" (1918) | "Shell Shock!" (illustration from The Hydra; Dec 1917) | Roman à clef (wikipedia)

Readings Due: Finish Regeneration; read short introduction to Ernst Friedrich, War against War (1924); reader or pdf
Lecture will address Friedrich's captioned photographs representing battlefield atrocities of WWI.

Recommended Readings: Ernst Friedrich's Anti-War Museum, 1925-1933 | Douglas Kellner's introduction to War Against War (1987)

Readings Due: Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others (2004)

Recommended Readings: Remembering Nagasaki

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"

Recommended Readings: Heather Burnett, Witness: AnAesthetic | James Nachtwey | Stephanie Sinclair | Reporters without borders on media casualties in Iraq | Chris Hedges on war and the press | James Der Derian, "The Semiotics of War" | Alive in Baghdad | Jihad TV (Channel 4; November 2006)

Readings Due: Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried (1990)

Recommended Readings: Background on the Quang Ngai province | Viet Cong | People's Army of Vietnam (all wikipedia) | Viet Nam War Overview (Vassar)

Readings Due: Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

Recommended Readings: Tim O'Brien, "The Vietnam in Me," New York Times Magazine (1994) | T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men"

Readings Due: Joe Sacco, Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995 (2000)

Recommended Readings: Yugoslav Wars / War in the Balkans | History of Bosnia and Herzegovina (wikipedia)

Readings Due: Joe Sacco, Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995

Recommended Readings: Srebrenica: The Video of a Wartime Atrocity | Mark Danner, "America and the Bosnian Genocide" (The New York Review of Books; August 1997) | Genocide Watch: The Srebrenica Massacre | Slavoj Žižek, "Against the Double Blackmail" (1999)

Readings Due: Etel Adnan, Sitt Marie Rose (1978)

Recommended Readings: Lebanese Civil War and Black September in Jordan (wikipedia)

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")

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

Recommended Readings: James Der Derian, Interview with Paul Virilio | Jordan Crandall, "Precision + Guided + Seeing"

Readings Due: Slavoj Žižek, "Are we in a war? Do we have an enemy?" (London Review of Books; May 2002)
Joe Sacco, "Trauma on Loan" (pdf file)

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)

Recommended Readings: 9.11: Netwar and MIME-NET (Information, Technology, War, and Peace Project; Brown University) | Arthur K. Cebrowski and John J. Garstka, "Network-Centric Warfare: Its Origin and Future" | "Information Operations Roadmap" (pdf file) | Counterinsurgency Field Manual (December 2006) (pdf file)

Readings Due: Anthony Lappé and Dan Goldman, Shooting War (online graphic novel; May-September 2006)
Film clips discussed in lecture: Gunner Palace, War Feels Like War, and others

Recommended Readings: Alive in Baghdad | Iraq: The Hidden Story (Channel 4; May 2006)
Redacted (Dir. Brian De Palma; 2007)

Readings Due: September 12 | Antiwargame | America's Army | Full Spectrum Warrior
Manuel De Landa, War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (pp. 83-105)

Recommended Readings: Institute for Creative Technologies | America's Army PC Game: Vision and Realization (pdf file) | Bruce Sterling, "War is Virtual Hell" (Wired; March/April 1993) | "More Than Just a Game, But How Close to Reality?" (New York Times; April 2003) | David Plotz, "Iraq: The Computer Game" (Slate; June 2003) | "Playing Games with a Conscience" (Wired; April 2004) | "A 'Sim' That's Dead Serious" (Washington Post; April 2005) | "Virtual Reality Therapy for Combat Stress" (NPR; August 2005) | "Toy Soldiers" (Guardian; December 2005) | "War Vets Feature in U.S. Army Game" (BBC; May 2006) | David B. Nieborg, "Mods, Nay! Tournaments, Yay! - The Appropriation of Contemporary Game Culture by the U.S. Military" (2006) | "Virtual Treatment for US Troops" (BBC; February 2007) | "Gaming Gets Its Consciousness On" (LA Times; March 2007) | Asymmetric Warfare - Virtual Training Technology (AW-VTT) (Forterra Systems)

Readings Due: Joseph DeLappe, dead-in-iraq (2006) | Baghdad <> San Francisco (Paula Levine) | The Great Game (John Klima) | Iraq War Coalition Fatalities

Recommended Readings: Michael Takeo Magruder, Falluja, Iraq, 31/03/2004 (2005)