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Where the Air Feels Heavy: Boredom and the Textures of the Aftermath
Author(s) -
Orrantia Juan
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
visual anthropology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.346
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1548-7458
pISSN - 1058-7187
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-7458.2012.01110.x
Subject(s) - nothing , boredom , evocation , narrative , simplicity , set (abstract data type) , recall , sketch , aesthetics , politics , visual arts , history , psychology , media studies , sociology , art , literature , social psychology , cognitive psychology , political science , epistemology , computer science , law , philosophy , algorithm , programming language
Set between an evocation and an ethnographic documentary, this essay explores aspects of aftermath of terror as an affective experience. Working through visuals and writing, I recall banal moments that disrupt the politics of forgetting by showing forms of remembrance through spaces, looks, or moments of simplicity. These moments signal leakages in official definitions of memory in otherwise classified spaces of nothingness, lethargy, and apathy. The article thus extends the evocative potential of photography and narrative writing as means to engage with multidimensional and hazy expressions of the experience of the aftermath of terror.