Catching up on my RSS feeds this morning, I came across this post on the great security blog Security Generation. The author points to his pet peeve, the oft-repeated but highly-problematic TV and movie trope of photographic enhancement. His beef is that it is impossible. An image (or recording) is not some fractal in which [...]
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The Fantasy of Photographic and Audio ‘Enhancement’
Posted in Film & Television, tagged Blow Out, Blowup, dunk3d, Giorgio Agamben, Security Generation, State of Exception on September 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Inception and the Fantasies of ‘Top Secret America’
Posted in Film & Television, Intelligence, tagged Christopher Nolan, CIA, Dana Priest, DARPA, Inception, James Bond, NSA, Perfect Citizen, The Matrix, Top Secret America, William M. Arkin on July 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A few days ago, I got a chance to watch Inception and enjoyed it very much. To Christopher Nolan’s credit, the film held me in such an almost pained state of suspense that, if I had been reading a book, I would have skipped ahead to the ending. In spite of the fact that I [...]
FISA, Joker the Terrorist, and the State of Exception: Sorting out The Dark Knight’s Murky Politics
Posted in Film & Television, tagged Carl Schmitt, Critique of Violence, Democracy, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Giorgio Agamben, Heath Ledger, Homo Sacer, State of Exception, Terrorism, The Dark Knight, Walter Benjamin on July 23, 2008 | 8 Comments »
***This article contains spoilers.*** There is no doubt Heath Ledger delivers a fantastic performance as the Joker and The Dark Knight is a very entertaining film, but its politics are very unsettling. The action opens in the midst of a crackdown on the gangs of Gotham. There are no hoodlums tripped up with batarangs left [...]
