Journal article
BELIEVING IN NOT SEEING: TEACHING ATROCITY WITHOUT IMAGES
Afterimage, v 40(6)
01 May 2013
Abstract
Jackson's scenario sparked a vigorous debate in the philosophical world, culminating in a range of responses in the 2004 edited volume There's Something About Mary: Essays on Phenomenal Consciousness and Frank Jackson's Knowledge Argument.'2 While Jackson and his colleagues were interested in forms of knowledge acquisition broadly construed, I ask a more humble - if equally abstract - question: how effective is it to picture an image without seeing it? Scholars of atrocity, in particular, have offered highly nuanced investigations into these questions with respect to their own research and its implications for students and general audiences.4 Those engaged in atrocity research and archiving have carefully and thoughtfully considered the role that documentation may play in establishing - in the language of a recent conference on photography and atrocity - iconicity, and the dangers that iconicity may pose in terms of impeding rather than enhancing memory.5 Related issues include the aestheticization of atrocity and the ways in which its images can become beautiful as works of art in their own right as well as presentations of past horror.
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- Title
- BELIEVING IN NOT SEEING: TEACHING ATROCITY WITHOUT IMAGES
- Creators
- Sharrona Pearl
- Publication Details
- Afterimage, v 40(6)
- Publisher
- University of California Press, Journals & Digital Publishing Division
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Africana Studies; Health Administration
- Other Identifier
- 991021863491604721