Rebecca A Adelman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3629604 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rebecca A Adelman |
| NOMBRES | Rebecca A |
| APELLIDO | Adelman |
| FIRMA | ADELMAN R A |
| AFILIACIONES | Department of Media and Communication Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Enduring Covid-19, nevertheless
This pandemic is a season of nevertheless; we are exhausted from all kinds of labour, but keep labouring nevertheless. This labouring, I suggest, takes three forms: doing (the productive and reproductive labour required to sustain life through a pandemic), undoing (the tedious processes of postponing and cancelling plans, or abandoning the process of planning altogether), and not-doing (passing the time left over between doing and undoing). Of co…
Immersion and Immiseration
Immersion and Immiseration:Alejandro González Iñárritu's Carne y Arena Rebecca A. Adelman (bio) Carne y Arena, the former Trinidad Baptist Church, Washington, DC, 03– 10 2018. I was born in the United States, and every time I've left, it's been by choice, for work or for pleasure. I travel volitionally, and my movement is largely unhindered. Although I have had some memorable encounters with the security state at airports and border crossings, in…
Figuring Violence
Fictive intimacies of detention
For many American critics of the ongoing war on terror, the detainees held at places like Guantánamo Bay function as objects of intense affective investment, generating anger, sympathy, or pity. But with very few exceptions, the people who experience such feelings for the detainees will never meet them. Kept unbridgeably distant from outsiders, these detainees embody political subjectivities that are unknowable (and perhaps unthinkable) to the pe…
Security Glitches
Focusing on the paradoxes revealed in the multibillion dollar mistake of the Universal Camouflage Pattern (UCP) and the expansive ambit of a leaked National Security Agency briefing on its approach to "identity intelligence," this article analyzes security glitches arising from the state's application of mechanized logics to security and visibility. Presuming that a digital-looking pattern would be more deceptive than designs inspired by natural …
Writing what can scarcely be imagined
Michael Richardson grounds his Gestures of testimony in an axiom: ‘Torture should be known, not simply in the abstract – as something that happens over there, to someone else – but as an experience
Ornamenting the Unthinkable
Repetitive, messy, and often hard to see: survival is rarely photogenic. Relative to spectacular scenes of violent dying or heroic living that comprise familiar images of military conflict, survival may look rather dull, if it appears at all. Militarized violence typically becomes visible in mortality, but survival blurs the distinctions between life and death in the precarious environments that war creates, thus eluding or confounding predominan…
Atrocity and Aporiae
In this article, I consider the practice of teaching with or about the Abu Ghraib images, and argue that such pedagogy is inherently founded on ethical and visual aporiae: dilemmas that are irresolvable but nonetheless demand solutions. These aporiae originate in the inseparability of the torture from its being photographed, as the images are documentary evidence of that violence, but also instruments of it. Because the idea of 'transparency' und…
Thank You for Our Flat Daddy”
Since 2003, SFC Graphics in Toledo, Ohio has been transforming snapshots of deployed service personnel into life-sized posters in a quixotic, domestic form of militarization called the Flat Daddy®/Flat Mommy® project. Durable and portable, “Flats” are intended to serve as active placeholders for the absent loved ones, helping to keep the family intact during and despite deployment. Life with a Flat involves daily negotiations of absence and prese…
Pixelizing atrocity
A digital solution to the problems caused by US military personnel misusing their digital cameras, pixelization (the intentional post-production enlargement of pixels to obscure potentially disturbing content) has become a defining feature of newsmedia visualizations of American military atrocity during the War on Terror. Here, I consider the ethics and politics of pixelizing photographs depicting torture at Abu Ghraib, the exploits of the Americ…
Sowing the sea
Because of their speed, suddenness, and disturbance of the rhythms of everyday life, terrorist attacks are defined by temporal disruptiveness. Hence, a crucial part of what the United States has had to do after September 11th is repair time by constructing linear narratives about terror. Sometimes, visual media have aided in this mission, but this paper explores an instance where a film confounded it. Drawing on insights from visual culture studi…
Sold(i)ering Masculinity
This article is a consideration of the nexus of photography, masculinity, and American nationalism in the traumatic post-9/11 context of the war in Iraq. It begins by outlining a theoretical framework for the interpretation of contemporary images of men at war. This background informs the rest of the argument, which is structured around an analysis of a particular collection of images from a commemorative photo history of the ongoing conflict. Th…
Security Glitches
Focusing on the paradoxes revealed in the multibillion dollar mistake of the Universal Camouflage Pattern (UCP) and the expansive ambit of a leaked National Security Agency briefing on its approach to "identity intelligence," this article analyzes security glitches arising from the state's application of mechanized logics to security and visibility. Presuming that a digital-looking pattern would be more deceptive than designs inspired by natural …
Sold(i)ering Masculinity
This article is a consideration of the nexus of photography, masculinity, and American nationalism in the traumatic post-9/11 context of the war in Iraq. It begins by outlining a theoretical framework for the interpretation of contemporary images of men at war. This background informs the rest of the argument, which is structured around an analysis of a particular collection of images from a commemorative photo history of the ongoing conflict. Th…
Figuring Violence
Ornamenting the Unthinkable
Repetitive, messy, and often hard to see: survival is rarely photogenic. Relative to spectacular scenes of violent dying or heroic living that comprise familiar images of military conflict, survival may look rather dull, if it appears at all. Militarized violence typically becomes visible in mortality, but survival blurs the distinctions between life and death in the precarious environments that war creates, thus eluding or confounding predominan…
Atrocity and Aporiae
In this article, I consider the practice of teaching with or about the Abu Ghraib images, and argue that such pedagogy is inherently founded on ethical and visual aporiae: dilemmas that are irresolvable but nonetheless demand solutions. These aporiae originate in the inseparability of the torture from its being photographed, as the images are documentary evidence of that violence, but also instruments of it. Because the idea of 'transparency' und…
Pixelizing atrocity
A digital solution to the problems caused by US military personnel misusing their digital cameras, pixelization (the intentional post-production enlargement of pixels to obscure potentially disturbing content) has become a defining feature of newsmedia visualizations of American military atrocity during the War on Terror. Here, I consider the ethics and politics of pixelizing photographs depicting torture at Abu Ghraib, the exploits of the Americ…
Sold(i)ering Masculinity
This article is a consideration of the nexus of photography, masculinity, and American nationalism in the traumatic post-9/11 context of the war in Iraq. It begins by outlining a theoretical framework for the interpretation of contemporary images of men at war. This background informs the rest of the argument, which is structured around an analysis of a particular collection of images from a commemorative photo history of the ongoing conflict. Th…
Sowing the sea
Because of their speed, suddenness, and disturbance of the rhythms of everyday life, terrorist attacks are defined by temporal disruptiveness. Hence, a crucial part of what the United States has had to do after September 11th is repair time by constructing linear narratives about terror. Sometimes, visual media have aided in this mission, but this paper explores an instance where a film confounded it. Drawing on insights from visual culture studi…
Thank You for Our Flat Daddy”
Since 2003, SFC Graphics in Toledo, Ohio has been transforming snapshots of deployed service personnel into life-sized posters in a quixotic, domestic form of militarization called the Flat Daddy®/Flat Mommy® project. Durable and portable, “Flats” are intended to serve as active placeholders for the absent loved ones, helping to keep the family intact during and despite deployment. Life with a Flat involves daily negotiations of absence and prese…
Pixelizing atrocity
A digital solution to the problems caused by US military personnel misusing their digital cameras, pixelization (the intentional post-production enlargement of pixels to obscure potentially disturbing content) has become a defining feature of newsmedia visualizations of American military atrocity during the War on Terror. Here, I consider the ethics and politics of pixelizing photographs depicting torture at Abu Ghraib, the exploits of the Americ…
Atrocity and Aporiae
In this article, I consider the practice of teaching with or about the Abu Ghraib images, and argue that such pedagogy is inherently founded on ethical and visual aporiae: dilemmas that are irresolvable but nonetheless demand solutions. These aporiae originate in the inseparability of the torture from its being photographed, as the images are documentary evidence of that violence, but also instruments of it. Because the idea of 'transparency' und…
Ornamenting the Unthinkable
Repetitive, messy, and often hard to see: survival is rarely photogenic. Relative to spectacular scenes of violent dying or heroic living that comprise familiar images of military conflict, survival may look rather dull, if it appears at all. Militarized violence typically becomes visible in mortality, but survival blurs the distinctions between life and death in the precarious environments that war creates, thus eluding or confounding predominan…
Writing what can scarcely be imagined
Michael Richardson grounds his Gestures of testimony in an axiom: ‘Torture should be known, not simply in the abstract – as something that happens over there, to someone else – but as an experience
Fictive intimacies of detention
For many American critics of the ongoing war on terror, the detainees held at places like Guantánamo Bay function as objects of intense affective investment, generating anger, sympathy, or pity. But with very few exceptions, the people who experience such feelings for the detainees will never meet them. Kept unbridgeably distant from outsiders, these detainees embody political subjectivities that are unknowable (and perhaps unthinkable) to the pe…
Security Glitches
Focusing on the paradoxes revealed in the multibillion dollar mistake of the Universal Camouflage Pattern (UCP) and the expansive ambit of a leaked National Security Agency briefing on its approach to "identity intelligence," this article analyzes security glitches arising from the state's application of mechanized logics to security and visibility. Presuming that a digital-looking pattern would be more deceptive than designs inspired by natural …
Immersion and Immiseration
Immersion and Immiseration:Alejandro González Iñárritu's Carne y Arena Rebecca A. Adelman (bio) Carne y Arena, the former Trinidad Baptist Church, Washington, DC, 03– 10 2018. I was born in the United States, and every time I've left, it's been by choice, for work or for pleasure. I travel volitionally, and my movement is largely unhindered. Although I have had some memorable encounters with the security state at airports and border crossings, in…
Figuring Violence
Enduring Covid-19, nevertheless
This pandemic is a season of nevertheless; we are exhausted from all kinds of labour, but keep labouring nevertheless. This labouring, I suggest, takes three forms: doing (the productive and reproductive labour required to sustain life through a pandemic), undoing (the tedious processes of postponing and cancelling plans, or abandoning the process of planning altogether), and not-doing (passing the time left over between doing and undoing). Of co…
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