RE-IMMAGINARE LA GUERRA Rimediazioni audiovisive dei conflitti contemporanei

According to Rita Raley, tactical media should be regarded as a “disturbance” or a “virtuosic performance” rather than as an “extrinsic product.” Differentiating tactical media from other forms of political maneuver, Raley explains that “for tactical media there is a certain power in spontaneous eruption, in the momentary evasion of protocol-based control structures, in the creation of temporary autonomous zones, which certainly play a role in making political transformation possible.” Within this framework falls the continuous and incessant proliferation of images produced by surveillance systems, which constitute a valuable resource for security and investigation within the temporality of what William John Thomas Mitchell defines as the “War of Images,” embedded in the countless practices and procedures adopted by governance structures in the War on Terror.