JORDAN CRANDALL
Under Fire
Book Launch
Thursday, April 28, 2005, 5 to 7 PM
Printed Matter, Inc.
535 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
tel: 212 925 0325
Saturday, April 30, 2005, 4 to 6 PM
Gagosian Gallery
456 N. Camden Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
tel: 310 271 9400
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Witte de With is pleased to announce book launch
events in New York and Los Angeles for Under Fire: The Organization and
Representation of Violence, volumes 1 and 2.
A series of reflections on warfare and
representation, Under Fire includes contributions by Akbar Ahmed, John Armitage,
Asef Bayat, Ryan Bishop, Benjamin Bratton, Susan Buck-Morss, David
Campbell,
Hamid Dabashi, Manuel DeLanda, James Der Derian, Madelaine
Drohan, Paul
N. Edwards,
Joy Garnett, Salwa Ghaly, Stephen Graham, Chris Hables Gray, Brian Holmes, Anahid
Kassabian,
Thomas Keenan, Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger, Saba Mahmood, Antonio
Monegal,
Loretta Napoleoni, Amir Parsa, Amit Rai, Harel Shapira, P.W. Singer, Radhika
Subramaniam, Ananya
Vajpeyi, Ana
Valdez, and Eyal Weizman.
Looking at the forms of
militarized agencies that are emerging today, Under Fire
attempts to understand the nature of emergent power and the forms of resistance
to it, situating cycles of violence within the modalities of a global
system. It looks at the role that representations
play as registers of symbolic meaning and as agents of affective change --
exploring the ways that violence materializes as both act and
image. It probes into cultural imaginaries
of conflict and the deeper truths they may offer about collective
identifications and aggressions.
The topics covered in these two volumes include the
conflux of battle simulation and news programming; democracy and violence; the
privatization of the military; the militarization of urban space;
architectures and ontologies of targeting; cultures of suspicion; the
epistemology of global infrastructures; the exhibition of atrocity; panopticism
and disappearance; simulated and imagined constructions of territory; and the
corporate use of force.
Under Fire is a project by Jordan Crandall, organized by Witte de
With, center for contemporary art, in collaboration with V2_Institute for the
Unstable Media, Rotterdam.
VOL 1
90-73362-61-X
VOL 2 90-73362-65-2
Published by Witte de With, center for contemporary art
Witte de Withstraat 50
3012 BR Rotterdam
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