more to say about security

From this same article, entitled Points of Departure: The Culture of US Airport Screening, by Lisa Parks,
"As Patrice Petro and Andrew Martin suggest in Rethinking Global Security (2006):
In the twenty-first century, the politics of war, terrorism, and security can hardly be separated from the practices and processes of mediation, which continue to expand and intensify...Both fictional and fact based threats to the U.S. and global security helped to create and sustain a culture of fear, with far-reaching effects."
Understood in this context, airport screening involves a set of mediation processes that have been expanded and intensified to fit the prerogatives of an anxious state."

security

"In this essay, I treat the airport checkpoint as a discursive space where the state, the airlines, workers, imaging and sensing technologies and travelers converge to orchestrate and reproduce a set of protocols designated to ensure wha the TSA describes as 'freedom of movement'. Rather than confine my analysis to individuals and their private property, however, I treat the checkpoint as a site of biopower that represents the shift from a paradigm of 'national defense' to one of 'national security' described by Hardt and Negri (Multitude: War and Democracy in the age of Empire). 'The notion of security', they explain, 'signals a lack of distinction between inside and outside, between the military and the police. Whereas "defense" involves a protective barrier against external threats, "security" justifies a constant martial activity equally in the homeland and abroad'...


the above is a quotation from an article one of my professors just sent me, the author, Lisa Parks, took all kinds of discreet photographs in airport security checkpoints, and is investigating them through the lenses of labor, the continuities between looking and touching and critiques the structures of surveillance that have emerged post 9/11...

9th floor EV studio

apartheid, walls, race, class and borders/boundaries

While I haven't seen the movie, the coffins displayed upon this wall as well as the graves being marked with piles of rocks looking like the cairns I grew up following on Appalachian mountain footpaths struck me. I was recently told by a professor that I was making work that was too conservative. That scared me. Now I realize I cannot shy away from what I have to say,
While I question the use of McCain soundclip speaking of knowledge of the human heart, this film looks like an interesting investigation of the absolutely murderous intentions of those behind this hugely expensive wall separating land from itself. Political boundaries are so fixed in our minds, but why? They are won through stealing and wars, and maintained in ways such as described in this videoclip. While Israeli apartheid week was taking place a week or so ago, I found myself wondering about the US version of the wall, different, so very different, but somehow much the same...

http://www.800milewall.org/watchatrailer.html

bananas and piñas

a 'discharge' process print on black linen...

pineapples printed and then removing color...

visages

some old prints that I enjoy, though my prof really disliked them at the time

founding fathers of terrorism

this is a find from 3 years ago, will have to post a photo of the finished work too, but I rather enjoyed these photos of work in progress, surfacing after 3 years today in an email search. I called it something like the 'founding fathers of terrorism,' or 'the original terrorists', seeing as most of todays so-called terrorist regimes have been or continue to be trained by the US military. Every US president printed in red and the use of color was meant to jar the eyes, at the same time as signify the colors of the flag...