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100 1 _aSchuppli, Susan,
_eauthor.
_936450
245 1 0 _aMaterial witness :
_bmedia, forensics, evidence /
_cSusan Schuppli.
264 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bThe MIT Press,
_c[2020]
300 _axv, 373 pages :
_billustrations (some color) ;
_c24 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aLeonardo
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [337]-356) and index.
505 _aDiscovery -- Hostile witness -- Hearsay -- Motion to strike -- Damages -- Toxic tort -- Cross-examination -- Expert witness -- Burden of proof -- Failure to appear -- Closing arguments -- Convictions.
520 _aThe evidential role of matter--when media records trace evidence of violence--explored through a series of cases drawn from Kosovo, Japan, Vietnam, and elsewhere. In this book, Susan Schuppli introduces a new operative concept: material witness, an exploration of the evidential role of matter as both registering external events and exposing the practices and procedures that enable matter to bear witness. Organized in the format of a trial, Material Witness moves through a series of cases that provide insight into the ways in which materials become contested agents of dispute around which stake holders gather. These cases include an extraordinary videotape documenting the massacre at Izbica, Kosovo, used as war crimes evidence against Slobodan Miloševic; the telephonic transmission of an iconic photograph of a South Vietnamese girl fleeing an accidental napalm attack; radioactive contamination discovered in Canada's coastal waters five years after the accident at Fukushima Daiichi; and the ecological media or "disaster film" produced by the Deep Water Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Each highlights the degree to which a rearrangement of matter exposes the contingency of witnessing, raising questions about what can be known in relationship to that which is seen or sensed, about who or what is able to bestow meaning onto things, and about whose stories will be heeded or dismissed. An artist-researcher, Schuppli offers an analysis that merges her creative sensibility with a forensic imagination rich in technical detail. Her goal is to relink the material world and its affordances with the aesthetic, the juridical, and the political.
650 0 _aEvidence, Circumstantial.
_936451
650 0 _aForensic sciences.
_927497
650 0 _aEvidence (Law)
_936452
830 0 _aLeonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
_927073
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_cBOOK
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