Strategic Visualization of Abstract Violence

21st Century Power and Dissident Image-Making

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This book explores the witnessing and visualization of 21st century warfare and state-corporate-military power, examining contemporary ‘post-photographic’ art documentary practices and their departure from socially ‘realistic’ representations of war and conflict, to more abstract, conceptual, but also forensic, visualizations.Departing from current ethico-political debates which attend to the creation and viewing of either direct or symbolic violence, The Strategic Visualization of Abstract Violence focuses on the in/visible and socially abstract systems, structures, processes and relations of state-corporate-military power that are neglected in conventional news framing and traditional war photography. With attention to the work of leading practitioners, it thus sheds light on new practices of both warfare and war photography, applying a recalibrated vocabulary and revised conceptual and methodological frameworks that recast debates surrounding the visualization of socially abstract forms of violence.It will therefore appeal to scholars of media and culture, visual culture studies, sociology, photo-journalism and military studies, especially those interested in transdisciplinary and transmedial approaches.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-12-08
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt453 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieVisual Modernities
Antal sidor242
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032656656

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Nicolette Barsdorf-Liebchen lectures in the School of Law and Society at Bournemouth University, UK. She practised as a lawyer for some 15 years in the UK and abroad prior to returning to academe to continue her research trajectory. She has a transdisciplinary background which encompasses law and social sciences, philosophy and critical theory, art history and visual culture, media and cultural studies. She has published on the topics of complicity in the witnessing and representation of war and violence, conceptual and war photography, contemporary state-corporate-military violence and its in/visibility

Introduction 1. Key Terms, Debates, Orientations. 2. Broomberg and Chanarin: Strategic Visualisation and the Non-event 3. Simon Norfolk: The Military Sublime: "War", Plexus and the State-Corporate Exception 4. Trevor Paglen and the Open/Public Secret: Visualising the Transparent Opacity of Plexus 5. Clark and Barnard: The Cadastral, and the Proxy Measure, or Towards a Visual Forensics of "War" and Plexus

'This book makes the intangible, corporate, systemic face of modern warfare visible to critical thought in a bold piece of theory-building. An original contribution to the study of war photography and visual culture, Barsdorf-Liebchen's conceptual vocabulary for the 21st century's in/visible violence feels both timely and urgent.'Fiona Crisp, Professor of Fine Art, Northumbria University, UK.'In theorising the visualisation of war, Nicolette Barsdorf-Liebchen challenges taken-for-granted assumptions about imagery in order to elaborate an alternative perspective alert to the in/visibilities of power and resistance. This is a bold intervention certain to inspire critical scholarship, particularly efforts to secure a conceptual vocabulary fit for purpose when the ethical representation of human suffering is at stake.'Stuart Allan, Professor of Journalism and Communication, Cardiff University, UK.