Exposing Violence: Media Practices and Aesthetics of Radical Truth

Exposing Violence: Media Practices and Aesthetics of Radical Truth, by Agnieszka Jelewska, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, and Michał Krawczak, Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. The co-founded the Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center at AMU. Published by MIT Press. The book is available in open access. While i’m pulling my hair out in despair because of wars, genocide, social polarisation, spread of far-right ideas and violence, plastic pollution, climate crisis and more, people around the world are working together to build new archives that collect data on violence, produce bottom-up infrastructure for monitoring social and environmental injustice and use anti-violence strategies to achieve justice. Some of their works is explored in Exposing Violence: Media Practices and Aesthetics of Radical Truth. The book looks at nonhierarchical and experimental media practices…