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- Title
Counterforensics/Counterlogistics: Seeing the Rot.
- Authors
Smith, Patrick Brian
- Abstract
This article examines the limitations of traditional approaches to understanding power dynamics and proposes alternative forms of visualization and critique. It specifically focuses on the intersections between immigration detention-removal and logistics, highlighting their shared logics of movement and invisibility. The article emphasizes the disproportionate impact of these systems on marginalized communities and discusses the concept of power formations and their resistance to visibility. It explores the need for alternative aesthetic and political strategies that expose the weaknesses of these systems. The text also discusses the concepts of counterlogistics and counterforensics as ways to resist and challenge systems of power and domination. It references the work of James Bridle and Allan Sekula as examples of visualizing and disrupting systems of power. The text argues for a focus on detail and fragmentation to expose the weaknesses of power networks.
- Subjects
INSTITUTIONAL logic; PREJUDICES; SOCIAL theory; FORENSIC psychiatry; DISCRIMINATION (Sociology); PUBLIC spaces; PRIVATE police; IMMIGRATION detention centers
- Publication
Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media & Culture, 2023, Vol 45, Issue 3, p355
- ISSN
1522-5321
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/dis.2023.a923674