What makes a photograph of a dead body obscene? Auchter offers a genealogy of obscenity that argues this process is highly political. She explores how and why some images are framed as ethically necessary to view, while others are displayed as spectacles, and others deemed too graphic for viewing.
What makes a photograph of a dead body obscene? Auchter offers a genealogy of obscenity that argues this process is highly political. She explores how and why some images are framed as ethically necessary to view, while others are displayed as spectacles, and others deemed too graphic for viewing.
Jessica Auchter's research focuses on visual politics and culture. She is author of The Politics of Haunting and Memory in International Relations (2014), and dozens of academic articles and edited volume chapters. She is the winner of the Fred Hartmann paper award from the International Studies Association.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Visualizing corpse politics 2. Horrifically graphic: the obscene corpse 3. The visual politics of ISIS beheadings 4. Dead terrorists and dead dictators 5. Proof of death: evidence and atrocity 6. Displaying the dead body: Some conclusions.
1. Visualizing corpse politics 2. Horrifically graphic: the obscene corpse 3. The visual politics of ISIS beheadings 4. Dead terrorists and dead dictators 5. Proof of death: evidence and atrocity 6. Displaying the dead body: Some conclusions.
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