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Part of the book: Spatial Violence and the Documentary Image

Patrick Brian Smith

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Abstract.  Borders have proliferated, shifting from the periphery to the centre of our lives. The global division of labour and the rise of extra-sovereign forms of governmentality have changed their function in myriad ways. How can the documentary image sense — both aesthetically and politically — mechanisms that are increasingly fragmented, and often withdrawn from sight? How does an aesthetic praxis that is attuned to such sites of spatial fragmentation and heterogeneity help to visualise, and simultaneously re-map and critique, the structures of violence upon which they are ultimately predicated? Key works considered include Anna Lascari, Ilias Marmaras, and Carolin Phillip, Piraeus in Logistical Worlds (2014); Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani, Liquid Traces: The Left-to-Die Boat (2012); and Christos Karakepelis, Raw Material (2011).

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