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    The Face of the Other (Faith) as a Threat: How Images Shape Our Perception
    Paganini, Claudia (2022) , S. 43-58
    According to Emmanuel Lévinas, the face of the other is the starting point of ethics. The following article therefore examines in which form of media representation we Christians meet with the other or more precisely with “the faith of the other”. Across the photo reporting of migration, war and terror, it will be shown that de-subjectifying images dominate and that the face of the other is absent. The same applies to religious websites and social media, where biblical quotations and idyllic landscape images predominate and people – or people’s faces – who could be a challenge to one's own faith hardly appear. This affects the perception of ‘the own’ and ‘the foreign’, and it does so in an even more negative way as the competence to interpret images correctly is not particularly well-developed in most people.
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    Serious Games: The Asymmetry of Images in Harun Farocki’s Work
    Guerri, Maurizio (2022) , S. 83-101
    The video installation Serious Games (2009–2010) by director, artist and image theorist Harun Farocki (1944–2014) investigates the relationship between virtual reality, augmented reality and war in the contemporary world. The question that guides Farocki’s research is: how have new technologies and new ways of producing images changed contemporary wars? Farocki’s analysis shows how the images themselves have become a part of war – not as propaganda, but as part of communication and part of the tactics of war, and how, within the way wars are conducted, images are becoming more and more «operational» and therefore entail an increasing asymmetry in both the materiality of conflicts and their perception. Farocki’s work on the relationship between images and wars is not only a genealogy of our view of wars, but also an attempt at “profanation” – to use Giorgio Agamben’s notion – that allows for a restitution of the testimonial capacity of images in relation to wars.