Title: Military Censorship and the Body Count in the Persian Gulf War
Abstract:In The Body in Pain, her 1985 study of ontological structure of war, Elaine Scarry writes, the more accurately nature of war is described, more likely chances that it will one day be displaced by a st...In The Body in Pain, her 1985 study of ontological structure of war, Elaine Scarry writes, the more accurately nature of war is described, more likely chances that it will one day be displaced by a structural surrogate (143). The aim and function of military censorship and discursive control over information and knowability of recent Persian Gulf War-considered unprecedented in modern times-has seemingly reversed Scarry's hope, and reinstated an acceptability of modern warfare once shaken by nuclear terrors surrounding Cold War and sobered by military and political uncontrollability of Vietnam. But its limited duration and intense self-reflexivity make Persian Gulf War and its discursive manipulation and control an excellent case for exploring interrelationship between policies and practices of knowledge control and production of authorizations and legitimations by which a polity makes decisions according to specific fictions of its own self-image. In case of warfare, this interrelationship of discourse and power-which we situate at heart of ideology-crucially mobilizes essentiallyRead More
Publication Year: 1991
Publication Date: 1991-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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