SCLG2623 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Good War, Adam Curtis, Derealization
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Adam curtis: on the desperate edge of now, the living dead e1, bbc documentary (11-19mins) First, the visible and experienceable alteration of injury has a compelling and vivid reality because it resides in the human body, the original site of reality, and more specifically because of the extremity" and endurance" of the alteration. Each side calls into question the legitimacy and thereby erodes the reality of the other country"s issues, beliefs, ideas, self-conception. Dispute leads relentlessly to war not only because war is an extension and intensification of dispute but because it is a correction and reversal of it. Warfare as producing signs production of corpses: stiffing in northern ireland paramilitary wars. The stiff as a repeatable code is the passageway that paramilitaries construct in order to intervene in historical time and to demonstrate their ability to regulate the latter in material form" (feldman 233)