Seeing Red: Baghdad and the event-ful city |
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| Authors: | Derek Gregory |
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| Institution: | 1. University College London, United Kingdom;2. University of Birmingham, United Kingdom;3. University of Tampere, Finland;4. Hebrew University of Jeruaslem, Israel;5. University of Haifa, Israel;6. Soran University, Kurdistan Region, Iraq;7. National University of Singapore, Singapore |
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| Abstract: | In late modern war visuality plays a vital role in both the conduct and the rationalization of military violence. This essay explores the techno-cultural apparatus of US military operations and media briefings in occupied Baghdad from 2003 to 2007. It traces the visual reconfiguration of the city as a space of events rather than purely objects. These digital mappings were an intrinsic part of the US Army’s counterinsurgency strategy, and their performances were punctuated by a dialectical interplay of geopolitical and biopolitical imaginaries that was focal to the abstraction and legitimation of American military intervention. |
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