Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia
E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
ISBN: 978-0-8232-9870-9
Verlag: Swiss National Science Foundation
Format: EPUB
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Stridently assertive, these affectively charged mediations of religion, masculinity, Christian privilege and subjectivity are among the myriad ephemera of war, from rumors, graffiti, incendiary pamphlets, and Video CDs, to Peace Provocateur text-messages and children’s reconciliation drawings. Orphaned Landscapes theorizes the production of monumental street art and other visual media as part of a wider work on appearance in which ordinary people, wittingly or unwittingly, refigure the aesthetic forms and sensory environment of their urban surroundings. The book offers a rich, nuanced account of a place in crisis, while also showing how the work on appearance, far from epiphenomenal, is inherent to sociopolitical change. Whether considering the emergence and disappearance of street art or the atmospherics and fog of war, Spyer demonstrates the importance of an attunement to elusive, ephemeral phenomena for their palpable and varying effects in the world.
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Introduction: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance | 1
Image, Appearance, Figuration, 8 • A Christian
Town, 11 • The Appearance of Crisis, 15 • Matters
of Perception, 18 • Orphaning the Nation, 20 •
Orphaned Landscapes, 23 • A Symptomatology
of Crisis, 28
1 Fire without Smoke | 33
War’s Fog, 36 • Fire without Smoke, 40 • The Thick
of Things, 45 • Soundtracks of War, 52 • Amplifications, 54 •
Anticipatory Practices, 58 • Official Peace, 63
2 Christ at Large | 67
Christ at Large, 76 • The Canon in the Street, 79 •
Guardians of the Neighborhood, 88 • Streetwise
Masculinity, 96 • This Face Wants you, 104 • Sighting
the Street, 109
3 Images without Borders | 113
Painting Christianity, 116 • Landscape I: Christian Enclave,
127 • Landscape II: Pancasila Jesus, 132 • Landscape III:
Sidewalk Citizenship, 136 • Landscape IV: Witnessing
the End-Time, 146 • Frames at War, 152 • A Frenzy
of the Visible, 154
4 Religion under the Sign of Crisis | 157
Times Rich in Demons, 158 • Conversion’s Unstable
Alchemy, 161 • Religion under the Sign of Crisis, 163 •
Simplifications, 166 • Terms of Coexistence, 170 •
Symptomatology: Treacherous Things, 176 • Symptomatology:
Treacherous Persons, 180 • Neighbors and Neighborhoods, 184
5 Provoking Peace | 191
Spectacles of Reconciliation, 193 • The Child in the Picture,
199 • Peace Journalism, 214 • Scrolling for Peace, 222
Conclusion: Ephemeral Mediations | 229
Acknowledgments | 233
Notes | 239
Works Cited | 281
Index | 299