Moving ImagesPub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.14361/9783839448274-008
I. Paul
{"title":"Controlling the Crisis","authors":"I. Paul","doi":"10.14361/9783839448274-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839448274-008","url":null,"abstract":"If it were possible to ventriloquize power today it would only talk over itself, anxiously announcing that “the whole of our world is in crisis” while austerely assuring that “everything is entirely under control.” This contradiction suffuses our present, a historical moment in which elaborate reports on the disintegration of this or that structure or institution double as advertisements for security programs that promise to ever more intensely, impenetrably, and intimately safeguard a seemingly threatened world. These twin voices of crisis and control mutually constitute the principal rationality of contemporary governmentality and power more generally, a logic within which crisis does not follow from the absence or failure of control, but rather is dependent upon — and is the condition of possibility for — control’s instantiation. This text seeks to elucidate how the emergent centrality of crisis in contemporary life, rather than being the consequence of crises beyond control, is instead an output of societies organized by the desire to control crises. Resonating through technical, discursive, aesthetic, and juridical strategies, the crisis-control conjuncture operates as a planetary force that is transformatively re-orchestrating the operations and organizations of power in the present. The first section of this text will draw upon Donna Haraway’s charting of the “informatics of domination,”2 Gilles Deleuze’s prognosis of the coming “societies of control,”3 and the “autonomous world of apparatuses” described in Tiqqun’s Cybernetic Hypothesis in order to theorize the operations of control as well as chart how they’ve been mobilized by Frontex, the agency tasked with policing Europe’s internal and external borders and a truly paradigmatic expression of the dynamics described above. After analyzing Frontex’s networked surveillance and policing of migrants — as well as the regulation and circulation of data resulting from those measures — in the second section of this text I outline how the control and crisis of Europe’s borders have emerged sympoietically, diagramming the crisis-control conjuncture within the historical specificity of the 2015–16 migrant crisis. In the third and final section of the","PeriodicalId":383676,"journal":{"name":"Moving Images","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131063979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moving ImagesPub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.14361/9783839448274-022
A. Desouza
{"title":"Lies of the Land","authors":"A. Desouza","doi":"10.14361/9783839448274-022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839448274-022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":383676,"journal":{"name":"Moving Images","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122042451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moving ImagesPub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.14361/9783839448274-007
B. Ghosh
{"title":"A Sensible Politics. Image Operations of Europe’s Refugee Crisis","authors":"B. Ghosh","doi":"10.14361/9783839448274-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839448274-007","url":null,"abstract":"Refugee image cultures are the dangerous supplement to refugee crises. As such, they invite critical opprobrium, sometimes for the unethical sensationalism of particular images and sometimes for the desensitizing effects of image overloads. At first glance, the steady stream of images serves only to numb rather than to incite real-time responsibility toward the migrant waves that seek passage into new territorial enclosures. Or the deluge of images invokes withdrawal and aggression, once host polities confront the thorny questions of resource distribution. Or indeed, especially sensational images are considered unethical in the extraction of surplus value from subaltern tribu-lations. Such allegations are well-founded, but they obscure the complex politics of the images that find unanticipated distributions across media forms and platforms. My essay tracks the trajectories of one iconic image that became an instant cultural mnemonic for the highly mediated European refugee crisis, ongoing since 2015. The poetic and circulatory effects of the image are exemplary instances of the problems that accompany the image production / distribution of the refugee crisis. The image of a two-year old Syrian boy found dead upon the beach of a fancy resort in Turkey became a social media event within hours of its first distribution as a news photo. The “event” inheres in the proliferation of a single image, its accumulating mediatic traces turning it into a media phenomenon. I focus on the Twitter storm ensuing from passing on the image — retweeting, liking, and sharing it — which further ricocheted between media platforms. This media explosion preceded deliberations on what the image meant or what was to be done.","PeriodicalId":383676,"journal":{"name":"Moving Images","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121531311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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