Critical Writing Index

I believed to see Prisoners/Eye

by Harun Farocki

CTRL SPACE: rhetorics of surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother, 2002, pp. 422-425

Karlsrhe: ZKM Center for Art and Media, 2002

Filmmaker Harun Farocki writes about the 1991 Gulf war in relation to the levels of reality and unreality inherent in the computerized images of war and precision guided bombs. He describes the information dropout that comes from a militarized perspective and resulting censorship that arises from privileging the computerized witness over the real-time and reality based witness. Farocki describes how we as propaganda targets, have become a part of the command control architecture of a cybernetic system of warfare. He concludes that the images of the gulf war showed us the power of information technology as a propaganda tool and the implications of C3I (command, control, communications and intelligence) for non military use.

ITEM 2002.078 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

I believed to see prisonersHaroun Farocki

EyeHaroun Farocki