Networked testimony as necroresistance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4516954 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francesca Romeo (Film and Digital Media Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 264-283 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women & Performance a journal of feminist theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0740-770X • E-ISSN: 1748-5819 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0740770x.2020.1907684 |
| OpenAlex | W3161940384 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 21 |
By catalyzing the affective sentiments of networked publics through the depiction of death, necroresistance cultivates empowerment through the sight of death to enable the security of the living. This essay conducts a close reading of Diamond Reynolds’ livestream video, which polemicized the execution of her partner, Philando Castile, at the hands of the state in order to examine how networked testimonies and necropolitical “selfies” have altered the discourse concerning racialized violence in a US context. Her networked testimony is both an indictment of this historical legacy, and an overture to accountability, for the video anticipates the multiple narratives that will abound in a court of law. In the struggle for liberation against state violence, Reynolds’ video differentiates itself from conventional notions of testimony because her narration is self-reflexive, simultaneously enacting both sousveillance and self-surveillance. Through this hybrid form of testimony, Reynolds’ produces a novel, performative form of necroresistance that centers her networked testimony as a counter-discourse to that of the state and its auxiliary components, including law enforcement and the judicial system. As such, necroresistance via networked testimonies harbor an anticipatory logic, act as evidence of criminal harm, a means of self-exoneration, and provide a forum for public mourning via digital circulation
Aesthetics · Art · Depiction · Indictment · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Performative utterance · Political science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · History · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
Into the Universe of Technical Images
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Lynching, Visuality, and the Un/Making of Blackness
Habeas Viscus
The “Eternal Return”
Bearing Witness While Black
Selfies beyond self-representation
Now you see them
Photography on the Color Line
Affective Economies
What is a photograph? What is photography
Can you be Black and Look at This
Necropolitics
Democracy's Lack
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Queer Visibility Through Selfies
The Right to Look
Notes to self
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |