ON THE ACTUARIAL GAZE
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- 1 March 2005
- journal article
- other
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Cultural Studies
- Vol. 19 (2) , 203-226
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09502380500077763
Abstract
Since the first Gulf War, we have witnessed a global repositioning of the visual communication practices, utilities and techniques of the state and media as regards political mobilization, identity formation, geographic perception, political violence, urban planning, public safety and human rights. The circulation, of anthropologically threatening images of violence, terror, covert infection and social suffering has intensified in our public culture. Examining perceptual systems of global risk, this essay asks: what is the visual structure of the historical catastrophe as mediatic event? How do visual cultures and technologies of risk and threat perception stratify sensory experience? How do visual cultures of risk affect how perpetuators and victims of violence and human rights violations depict their political experience as historical truth?Keywords
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