Imaging terror: Logos, pathos and ethos

Third World Quarterly

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-37

  Der Derian, James ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

MEDIA ROLE; PERCEPTION; TERRORISM;

EID: 27844432227     PISSN: 01436597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0143659042000322883     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Based on techniques first developed in the 1870s by the founder of eugenics, Francis Galton, in which photographs of criminals were superimposed into a 'natural kind', Burson's digitalised images of the 1980s subverted the notion of ideal types, for example in 'Warhead' and 'Beauty' (a composite of Hollywood actresses Jane Fonda, Brooke Shields, Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton and Jacqueline Bisset).
2. The art of deterrence, prohibiting political war, favors the upsurge, not of conflicts, but of acts of war without war.' See P Virilio, Pure War, trans M Polizotti, New York: Semiotext(e), 1983, p 27.
3. See J Der Derian, Virtuous War: Mapping the Miltiary-Industrial-Media- Entertainment Network, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001.
4. It is also worth remembering the Pentagon's secret effort to model seven post-cold war 'war scenarios', including the rise of a Resurgent/Emergent Global Threat (REGT) by 2001, which was authored by Paul Wolfowitz. See P Tyler, New York Times, 17 February 1992, p A8.
5. See R Barthes, 'Rhetoric of the image', in Barthes, Image-Music-Text, trans S Heath, New York: Hill and Wang, 1977, pp 32-51.
6. White Sands (1992) starring Willem Dafoe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Mickey Rourke.
7. W Benjamin, 'The work of art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', in H Arendt (ed), Illuminations, New York: Schocken, 1969, pp 241-242.
8. W Benjamin, The Arcades Project, trans. H Eiland and K McLaughlin, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999, pp 462-464.
9. I would like to thank Tom Levin for the gift of the phrase, 'Age of Adobe Photoshop'.
10. M Dowd, 'A world of hurt', New York Times, 9 May 2004.
11. R Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, New York: Vintage, 1982.
12. F Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, trans RJ Hollingdale, London: Penguin, 1968, p 55.