1. Introductions & waiting list
2. Books on reserve in Davidson; reader available from A&S publications; some reading online
3. Online syllabus: study materials, policies
4. Assignments: two papers, final exam (take-home essays; in-class passage IDs)
5. Film screenings: Wednesday nights, 7:00-10:00, or Tuesday nights, 8:00-10:00? (films also available in Kerr Hall learning lab)

• Range of material (literature, photography, new media art, theory, film, creative nonfiction, public policy statements, war reporting, games)
  
• genre of war literature
• representation --> information visualization
1. end of 20C as end of representation
2. inauguration of era of simulation
3. representation: real = sign
4. representation works by reflection & analogy (1:1)
5. simulation: sign no longer backs the real; obliteration of the original reference

1947: Dept of War becomes Dept of Defense
“taking action”
“target servicing”
“arbitrary deprivation of life”
“violence processing”
“damage limitation” (offensive attack)
“strikes”
“coercive diplomacy"
Grenada (1983): “pre-dawn vertical insertion”
"political maneuvering"

// trauma
// spectacle & spectatorship
// total war, smart war, just war, netwar
// models of defense
// models of the enemy
// rhetoric of intervention
// reformulation of human rights
// how is immersive experience or the real of war produced?

Barker - WWI
O'Brien - Vietnam
Sacco - Balkans
Adnan - Lebanon
Sontag and others - Afghanistan, Iraq, war on terror