Alexander L Fattal
Biographic Data
| ID | 93546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander L Fattal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander L |
| FAMILY NAME | Fattal |
| SIGNATURE | FATTAL A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California System |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8425-0215 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Purple Sea directed by Amel Alzakout and Khaled Abdulwahed, LightDox 2020, 67 minutes
Un palimpsesto de la guerra entre vocales que se desvanecen
El conjunto de imgenes y textos que conforman el trabajo "Tiempo y silencio", de Juan Manuel Echavarra, tiene una cualidad sinestsica, pues logra evocar mltiples sentidos a partir de un solo estmulo visual.En este sentido, resaltamos la centralidad del sonido, desde el silencio del ttulo hasta las imgenes de vocales y nmeros en espacios escolares que nos invitan a leer, incluso en voz alta, o a imaginar las voces de las infancias a las que origin…
Between Guerrilla Warfare and Media Warfare: The Last Days of Insurgency at the Farc-EP’s Tenth Conference (La Décima)
Working with Grievous Images’, a special issue of History of Photography: Q&A from questions posed by the editors Daniel Foliard and Sean Willcock to authors Pierre Schill, Susie Protschky, Nancy Rush…
1. Pierre Schill: My research on the 1911 visual coverage of the war in Tripolitania stems from a chance encounter. I was working on a different topic and came across some old and damaged positive
A Necropolitical Visual Regime: Banditry in Colombia, 1958–1964
From 1958 to 1964 in Colombia, during the first years of the partisan power-sharing agreement known as the National Front, roving crews of gunmen labelled ‘bandits’ who had been mobilised and then abandoned by party elites terrorised local populations in the countryside. We track the gruesome photographic record of that violence: first, as it was produced by bandits who recruited photography in their bids for local sovereignty; second, as it circ…
Guests of the Guerrilla: Integrated Spectacle and Disintegrating Peace, an Ethnographic Analysis of the Farc's Tenth (and Final?) Guerrilla Conference
During a week in September of 2016, the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC) held its tenth guerrilla conference, the Décima, in the plains of Yarí in southern Colombia. The guerrilla group blew the event open to the media, orchestrating a festival cum eco-conflict-tourism extravaganza to mark its transition to legal politics. This photo/ethnographic analysis of the Décima illuminates the FARC…
Transitar hacia la paz en Colombia. Entre la promesa y la ilusión en dos experiencias históricas (1953-2017)
En 1953 y en 2012 - 2016 tuvieron lugar en Colombia dos procesos históricos de paz que involucraron, de una parte, a las Guerrillas Liberales del Llano y de la otra, a las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia. Haciendo uso de un corpus de imágenes derivado de medios de comunicación como El Tiempo y La Revista Semana, así como del Archivo Germán Guzmán Campos, y acudiendo a literatura secundaria y de claves de lectura derivadas de los estud…
Pacifista, between Vice and Virtue: Funding Digital Journalism for a 'Generation of Peace' in Colombia
Figure 1. Pacifista’s home page, May 8, 2019.This is the story of Pacifista. Pacifista is a left-leaning, youth-focused, pro-peace digital-native journalism initiative (meaning it is not the digita
War Through the Looking Glass: Portraits of Former Farc Guerrillas in the 'Truck Camera
Explaining how and why I recorded life-history interviews with former guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in the back of a moving truck—transformed into a giant camera
Uploading the News after Coming Down from the Mountain: "The Farc's Uncanny Experiment with Online Television, in Cuba, 2012-2016" (2017) [Subir las noticias al bajar del monte: el experimento de las …
Entre 2012 y 2016, las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) negociaron un acuerdo de paz con el gobierno colombiano en La Habana, Cuba. Durante esos cuatro años, el grupo experimentó con distintas técnicas de producción mediática para redefinirse y acceder a nuevos públicos. En este orden de ideas, un noticiero en Internet fue clave para que las FARC pudieran difundir su punto de vista. Este ensayo analiza la estética de dicho notic…
Target Intimacy: Notes on the Convergence of the Militarization and Marketization of Love in Colombia
This article considers the convergence of militarism and marketing in Colombia and argues that the axis of that confluence is the drive to appropriate intimacy, a fleeting index of love. I scrutinize this phenomenon in the context of the Colombian military's individual demobilization program, which, prior to the peace accord of 2016, worked with the advertising firm that managed consumer brands such as Mazda and Red Bull. The double meaning of "c…
Target Intimacy: Notes on the Convergence of the Militarization and Marketization of Love in Colombia
This article considers the convergence of militarism and marketing in Colombia and argues that the axis of that confluence is the drive to appropriate intimacy, a fleeting index of love. I scrutinize this phenomenon in the context of the Colombian military's individual demobilization program, which, prior to the peace accord of 2016, worked with the advertising firm that managed consumer brands such as Mazda and Red Bull. The double meaning of "c…
Uploading the News after Coming Down from the Mountain: "The Farc's Uncanny Experiment with Online Television, in Cuba, 2012-2016" (2017) [Subir las noticias al bajar del monte: el experimento de las …
Entre 2012 y 2016, las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) negociaron un acuerdo de paz con el gobierno colombiano en La Habana, Cuba. Durante esos cuatro años, el grupo experimentó con distintas técnicas de producción mediática para redefinirse y acceder a nuevos públicos. En este orden de ideas, un noticiero en Internet fue clave para que las FARC pudieran difundir su punto de vista. Este ensayo analiza la estética de dicho notic…
Uploading the News after Coming Down from the Mountain: "The Farc's Uncanny Experiment with Online Television, in Cuba, 2012-2016" (2017) [Subir las noticias al bajar del monte: el experimento de las …
Entre 2012 y 2016, las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) negociaron un acuerdo de paz con el gobierno colombiano en La Habana, Cuba. Durante esos cuatro años, el grupo experimentó con distintas técnicas de producción mediática para redefinirse y acceder a nuevos públicos. En este orden de ideas, un noticiero en Internet fue clave para que las FARC pudieran difundir su punto de vista. Este ensayo analiza la estética de dicho notic…
Target Intimacy: Notes on the Convergence of the Militarization and Marketization of Love in Colombia
This article considers the convergence of militarism and marketing in Colombia and argues that the axis of that confluence is the drive to appropriate intimacy, a fleeting index of love. I scrutinize this phenomenon in the context of the Colombian military's individual demobilization program, which, prior to the peace accord of 2016, worked with the advertising firm that managed consumer brands such as Mazda and Red Bull. The double meaning of "c…
Transitar hacia la paz en Colombia. Entre la promesa y la ilusión en dos experiencias históricas (1953-2017)
En 1953 y en 2012 - 2016 tuvieron lugar en Colombia dos procesos históricos de paz que involucraron, de una parte, a las Guerrillas Liberales del Llano y de la otra, a las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia. Haciendo uso de un corpus de imágenes derivado de medios de comunicación como El Tiempo y La Revista Semana, así como del Archivo Germán Guzmán Campos, y acudiendo a literatura secundaria y de claves de lectura derivadas de los estud…
Pacifista, between Vice and Virtue: Funding Digital Journalism for a 'Generation of Peace' in Colombia
Figure 1. Pacifista’s home page, May 8, 2019.This is the story of Pacifista. Pacifista is a left-leaning, youth-focused, pro-peace digital-native journalism initiative (meaning it is not the digita
War Through the Looking Glass: Portraits of Former Farc Guerrillas in the 'Truck Camera
Explaining how and why I recorded life-history interviews with former guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in the back of a moving truck—transformed into a giant camera
Guests of the Guerrilla: Integrated Spectacle and Disintegrating Peace, an Ethnographic Analysis of the Farc's Tenth (and Final?) Guerrilla Conference
During a week in September of 2016, the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC) held its tenth guerrilla conference, the Décima, in the plains of Yarí in southern Colombia. The guerrilla group blew the event open to the media, orchestrating a festival cum eco-conflict-tourism extravaganza to mark its transition to legal politics. This photo/ethnographic analysis of the Décima illuminates the FARC…
Working with Grievous Images’, a special issue of History of Photography: Q&A from questions posed by the editors Daniel Foliard and Sean Willcock to authors Pierre Schill, Susie Protschky, Nancy Rush…
1. Pierre Schill: My research on the 1911 visual coverage of the war in Tripolitania stems from a chance encounter. I was working on a different topic and came across some old and damaged positive
A Necropolitical Visual Regime: Banditry in Colombia, 1958–1964
From 1958 to 1964 in Colombia, during the first years of the partisan power-sharing agreement known as the National Front, roving crews of gunmen labelled ‘bandits’ who had been mobilised and then abandoned by party elites terrorised local populations in the countryside. We track the gruesome photographic record of that violence: first, as it was produced by bandits who recruited photography in their bids for local sovereignty; second, as it circ…
Between Guerrilla Warfare and Media Warfare: The Last Days of Insurgency at the Farc-EP’s Tenth Conference (La Décima)
Purple Sea directed by Amel Alzakout and Khaled Abdulwahed, LightDox 2020, 67 minutes
Un palimpsesto de la guerra entre vocales que se desvanecen
El conjunto de imgenes y textos que conforman el trabajo "Tiempo y silencio", de Juan Manuel Echavarra, tiene una cualidad sinestsica, pues logra evocar mltiples sentidos a partir de un solo estmulo visual.En este sentido, resaltamos la centralidad del sonido, desde el silencio del ttulo hasta las imgenes de vocales y nmeros en espacios escolares que nos invitan a leer, incluso en voz alta, o a imaginar las voces de las infancias a las que origin…
Art (6 works) · Conflict, Peace, and Violence in Colombia (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Global Security and Public Health (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Citizen journalism (2 works) · History (2 works)