War at a Distance and Serious Games: Tribute to Harun Farocki

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An introduction to the screening "War at a Distance" and "Serious Games" by Kristin Gissberg What role do images have in the production, documentation, and understanding of war? How have we become accustomed to war images, and indeed images of war, and to what extent does this familiarity shape our perceptions, including the emotional landscape of warfare’s preparation, reporting, and debriefing? What is the technology of war today, and from which trajectory has this emerged? In this time of ...