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Part of the book: Spatial Violence and the Documentary Image

Patrick Brian Smith

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Abstract.  The conclusion to the book considers the wider aesthetic and political stakes of this spatio-political turn in contemporary nonfiction media practice. It engages with Allan Sekula's multimedia project TITANIC's Wake (2001) to acknowledge how forms of spatial exploitation and violence also structure and support the material production, circulation, and dissemination of moving image media. Whilst it is crucial to recognise the forms of spatial exploitation underpinning media forms and infrastructures, the conclusion also reinforces the argument that the documentary form holds significant potential for spatio-political critique at the level of aesthetic sensing and sense-making. Ultimately, the modes of aesthetic investigation explored in this book do not reduce space to static forms of representation. Instead, they reveal it as a complex, heterogeneous social product shaped by social, political, and economic forces.

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