SCLG2623 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Me Too Movement, Zoriah Miller
1 Dec 2018
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Violence used politically to produce consent and compliance through fear, to produce subjectivities. Fear reaches down to individuals (existential threat) it becomes socially normalised. Our mediated experience of world media focus on violence. Uses of visual culture, horror, to produce meaning to emphasise agendas. Pervasive but often denied invisible victims (domestic violence, institutional abuse, political opponents, Violence as an object of experience:inflicting bodily pain. Split between reality of other and reality of self e. g. - the medical & legal difficulties of describing, locating, diagnosing pain back, stomach vagueness of location https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=n8nkn8b5j1w. Whatever pain achieves, it achieves through its unshare- ability, and it ensures this shareability through its resistance to language (scarry 1985: 4) Destroys language (scarry) e. g. confessions extracted through torture. Is a unique interior state because it has no object interior states (moods, feelings) usually have external reference: e. g. - hatred of, hunger for, passion for, love for.
