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Serious Games: The Asymmetry of Images in Harun Farocki’s Work

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dc.creatorGuerri, Maurizio
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-25T14:16:17Z
dc.date.available2023-05-25T14:16:17Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.8:2022.1.5
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19588
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/300
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20787
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
dc.subjectSerious Gamesen
dc.subjectAsymmetryen
dc.subjectImagesen
dc.subjectWorken
dc.subject.ddcddc:794
dc.subject.personHarun Farocki
dc.titleSerious Games: The Asymmetry of Images in Harun Farocki’s Worken
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2023-05-25T16:41:46
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/300
local.source.epage101
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in Media Ethics and Religion
local.source.spage83
local.source.volume8

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