ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Walter Benjamin, Jelling Stones
16 Aug 2018
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Class 17 - Violence
-Reading notes: terror as Usual
• perhaps such an elsewhere should make us suspicious about the deeply rooted
sense of order here, as if their dark wildness exists so as to silhouette our light, the
bottom line being, of course, the tight and necessary fit between order, law, justice,
sense, economy, and history - all of which them elsewhere manifestly ain't got much
•«terror as usual, the middle class way, justified by the appeal to the higher
education, to the preservation of Civilization itself, played out right therein the
fee-ridden blocks of lofty spires, the fiery figures of the burning buildings, and the
calm spotlights of policemen wither watchful dogs. We remember Walter
Benjamin: no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document
of barbarism.
•The optics of the nervous system: power connecting terror’s talk with the use of
disorder through the assassination and disappearing people. Psychological as
much as social and cultural, at the heart of political sphere. t
•The situation prevailing in Colombia is decidedly part of an order, a global order
of cosmic confrontation between democracy and communism in which poor
Third World countries are the first to be fractured and where the front line of
combat is dr
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Document Summary
Benjamin: no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. The optics of the nervous system: power connecting terror"s talk with the use of disorder through the assassination and disappearing people. Psychological as much as social and cultural, at the heart of political sphere. t. The situation prevailing in colombia is decidedly part of an order, a global order of cosmic confrontation between democracy and communism in which poor. Third world countries are the first to be fractured and where the front line of combat is dr. !42: mothers of the disappeared: name the dead and the disappear, put pictures of them = create the specific image necessary to reverse to public and state"s idea of the many deaths. Representation: has an affect on the the vision. How you write about something actually affects the way it is perceived.
