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Title: Abu Ghraib and its shadow archives
Related: Law and literature, Vol. 19, Issue 2, p.247-276
DOI: 10.1525/lal.2007.19.2.247
Publisher: University of California Press
Date: 2007
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 200204 Cultural Theory 200299 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified
Author/Creator: Pugliese, Joseph
Description: The focus of this essay is on the visual conditions of possibility that underpin the Abu Ghraib torture photographs. In the course of the essay, I proceed to map the codes, conventions, technologies, aesthetics, and visual archives that enable both acts of torture and their visual representation. By situating the Abu Ghraib torture photographs within Orientalist, fascist, and white supremacist shadow archives, I analyse those points of intersection between genealogies of technopolitico- military power and visual regimes of subjugation, mastery, violence, and torture.
Description: 30 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 200204 Cultural Theory
Subject Keyword: 200299 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified
Subject Keyword: torture
Subject Keyword: Abu Ghraib
Subject Keyword: Salò
Subject Keyword: visual culture
Subject Keyword: visual archives
Subject Keyword: aesthetics
Subject Keyword: imperialism
Subject Keyword: white supremacy
Subject Keyword: Orientalism
Subject Keyword: neofacism
Subject Keyword: homophobia
Subject Keyword: sexual assault
Subject Keyword: prisons
Subject Keyword: Pasolini
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Critical and Cultural Studies

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/38725
Identifier: ISSN:1541-2601
Identifier: mq-rm-2007002958
Language: eng
Rights: Published as Law & Literature, Vol. 19, Issue 2, pp. 247-276. © 2007 by the Regents of the University of California/The Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University. Copying and permissions notice: Authorization to copy this content beyond fair use (as specified in Sections 107 and 108 of the U. S. Copyright Law) for internal or personal use, or the internal or personal use of specific clients, is granted by the Regents of the University of California/on behalf of The Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University for libraries and other users, provided that they are registered with and pay the specified fee via Rightslink® on Caliber (http://caliber.ucpress.net/) or directly with the Copyright Clearance Center, http://www.copyright.com.
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