MDSC62H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: September 11 Attacks, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Cultural Turn
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Lecture 7: representations of violence in the war on terror. Scopic regime refers to the idea that seeing is not just about biology, but is culturally constructed. Our visual experiences are mediated, even constituted, by technologies, such as photography, television, and digital computers. = it"s not just that we see through technologies, but that they construct a particular way of seeing. = the gaze, can be understood as a type of scopic regime. A scopic regime is an overarching experience of the gaze, as enacted on an entire culture. The scopic regimes of war mean that there is a cultural way of seeing the war, and we can look at how technologies of vision mediate war. George bush first used the term, war on terror, on 20 september 2001, a few days after the. September 11, 2001 attacks on the world trade centre twin towers.
