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Psycho-Photography: Abu Ghraib and Shame Psycho-Photography: Abu Ghraib and Shame
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The Discursive Function of the Photographs The Discursive Function of the Photographs
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Documentation Documentation
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Exposure Exposure
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From Event to Action From Event to Action
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The Photograph as Instrument of Torture and the Question of Shame The Photograph as Instrument of Torture and the Question of Shame
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Photographs of Shame, Shaming, and Shamelessness Photographs of Shame, Shaming, and Shamelessness
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Shame, Perversion, and the Political Punctum Shame, Perversion, and the Political Punctum
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five On Psycho-Photography: Shame and Abu Ghraib
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Published:February 2012
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Abstract
This chapter is devoted to an analysis of the Abu Ghraib photographs and proposes that there is a formal connection between the temporality of anxiety, the psychic structure of shame, and the photographic medium itself. It suggests that shame can be considered a photographic affect. In shame, as in photography, there is an emphasis on acts of looking and effects of exposure. In both shame and photography, aspects of an inner life, individual body or personal history can become (or threaten to become) available to public view. The Abu Ghraib photographs derive their meaning and force by making use of the potential for collaboration between the political effects of the photographs and the psychic affects stirred up by them. The chapter gives the name “psycho-photography” to the conjunction between the political effects of this photographic event and the photographic temporality of shame anxiety. In “psycho-photography,” politics and history become imbued with mechanically reproduced images (images that are neither strictly conscious or unconscious, nor personal or historical) which produce new historical associations and political effects.
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