Index

Yasmin Ibrahim (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

Technologies of Trauma

ISBN: 978-1-80262-136-5, eISBN: 978-1-80262-135-8

Publication date: 11 August 2022

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Ibrahim, Y. (2022), "Index", Technologies of Trauma, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 155-160. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80262-135-820221008

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Copyright © 2022 Yasmin Ibrahim. Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited


INDEX

Accelerated modernity
, 125

‘Aesthetic regime’
, 50

Aetiology of Hysteria, The (Freud)
, 46–47

Affectivity
, 26–27

‘Afro-pessimism’
, 116

Algorithmic logic of black death

brutality, blackness and death in excess
, 117–121

disembodied black consciousness and ‘politics of refusal’
, 125–131

technologies of trauma and ‘repeat’ mode
, 123–125

theorizing hermeneutics of ‘Black’ horrific
, 121–123

‘Ambient racism’
, 101

American supremacy
, 43–44

Anti-Blackness
, 116–117

Architecture
, 138–139

Art of the Novel (Kundra)
, 20–21

Artefacts
, 7–8

Artificial intelligence (AI)
, 100–101

Atrocity photography
, 24–25

Attention-seeking digital economy
, 17

Banality of Black death
, 115–116

Banalization of hate
, 101–105

Belonging
, 46–47

Biopolitical dominance
, 77–78

Biopolitics
, 143–144

Black death
, 123–124

‘Black mysticism’
, 127–128

Black Skin, White Mask
, 117–118

Black spirit
, 127–128

‘Black’ horrific, theorizing hermeneutics of
, 121–123

‘Blackened’
, 136–137

Blackening of Grenfell in life and death
, 142–146

Blackness
, 115–117, 120–122

‘Breathtaking provincialism’
, 72

Brutality
, 117–121

‘Bystander culture’
, 101–102

Capitalism
, 30–31

Marxist critiques of
, 8

Chronotopes
, 146–147

‘Civil rights movement’
, 128–129

‘Click’ economy
, 28–29

Collective trauma
, 46–47

Colonial gaze
, 43–44

Colonial memory
, 5–6

Colonialism
, 9

Coloniality
, 9

of mediated suffering
, 66–67

and modes of knowing
, 74–77

of power
, 78–79, 83

of White superiority
, 9

Colonialization
, 18

Colonization
, 77–78

of digital platforms
, 101

Compartmentalization
, 101

Compassion fatigue
, 30–31

‘Confessional cultures’
, 55

Consciousness
, 18–19

Consumption of trauma
, 4–5

Contemporary trauma studies
, 20–21

‘Corporeal schemas’
, 18–19

Cosmology
, 9

Cosmopolitanism
, 66

Crises of suffering scholarship
, 67–69

‘Crisis ordinariness’
, 6

Cultural analysis of trauma
, 17

Cultural imperialism
, 69

Cultural Politics of Emotions, The
, 6–7

Cultural trauma
, 17, 48, 82

‘Culture of Sensibility’
, 20

‘Cyber racism’
, 94

Cyber violence
, 104

Cyberbullying
, 95–96

Cyberhate
, 93–94, 102

Cyberspace
, 93–94

De-historicization of trauma
, 67–68

Death
, 46

in excess
, 117–121

monument
, 146–150

‘Death-making’
, 143–144

Derridean hauntology
, 137

Destructivity
, 46

‘Detective paradigm’
, 75

Dialogism
, 146

Digital economy
, 57, 124–125

Digital modernity
, 94–95

Digital play cultures
, 106

Digital realm
, 129–130

Digital screen culture
, 123–124

Digital technology-facilitated violence (DTF violence)
, 94

Digital violence
, 105–106

‘Disaster marathons’
, 33–34

Disembodied black consciousness
, 125–131

Disequilibrium
, 46

Dislocated modernity
, 77–81

‘Disordered capitalism’
, 10

Distribution of trauma
, 57

Dominant emotion
, 94

‘Double consciousness’
, 74

Duplex Theory of Hate
, 98

‘Economies of blackness’
, 144

‘Editation’
, 53–54

Elongated coloniality
, 77–81

Emergency
, 26

‘Emotional hegemony’
, 1–2

Emotions
, 1–2, 8

‘Epistolary ethnography’
, 75–76

Equality
, 46

Eurocentric master narrative
, 6–11

Eurocentric Western rationality
, 9

Eurocentricity
, 9

Eurocentrism
, 10

‘Event-based model’
, 67–68

‘Face’
, 8

Facebook
, 95–96

Famine
, 70

‘Feathering’
, 104

‘Female culture industry’
, 23–24

Fetishization of mediated trauma
, 4

Fictional films
, 34

Film
, 21–22

‘Flesh witnessing’
, 29–30

‘Flocking’
, 104

Fraternity
, 46

Game literacy
, 105

Game play
, 54–55

Game-play economy
, 56

Gamergate scandal
, 101–102

‘Gamification’
, 105–106

of hate
, 105–106

Gaze
, 65–66

Genealogy of technological witnessing
, 18–26

General Aggression Model (GAM)
, 56

Global South
, 11, 65–66, 84–85

Globalization process
, 15–16

Governance
, 56

Great Indian Famine (1986–1987)
, 43–44

Grenfell
, 135–136, 138

blackened
, 136–137

blackening of Grenfell in life and death
, 142–146

iconography as ‘optical machinery’
, 138–142

necroaesthetics and death monument
, 146–150

Grenfell Action Group
, 136

Hate

and architecture of internet
, 96–101

banalization of
, 101–105

crimes
, 98

online
, 93–94

speech
, 95

Hate-laden behaviour
, 99

Hate-related activities
, 94

Hegemony of Western power relations
, 77–78

Heterochronicity
, 146–147

Hillsborough Stadium disaster (1989)
, 136

History in itself
, 32

Homo sacer
, 119

Human civilization
, 46–47

Human consciousness
, 28

Human rights
, 46–47

Human senses
, 26–27

Human-computer experience
, 105

Hyper-reality
, 54–55

Iconography as ‘optical machinery’
, 138–142

Ideologies
, 1–2

Image-sharing platforms
, 54–55

‘Imagination’
, 7–8

‘Immutable mobile’
, 34

Imperialism
, 18

In terrorem effect
, 95–96, 98

‘Information society’
, 28

“Interlocking” effect
, 78–79

‘Internationalization of conscience’
, 16–17

Internet
, 98–99

hate and architecture of
, 96–101

virality of
, 115–116

‘Interpellation’
, 1–2

Intimate public
, 23–24

Invention of Tradition, The
, 27

Journal of the Plague Year, A (Defoe)
, 20–21

‘Keyhole testimony’
, 20

‘Knowledge society’
, 28

LambdaMOO
, 106

Liberty
, 46

‘Liquid modernity’
, 15–16

Literary fiction
, 21–22

‘Loop’
, 123

Lynchings
, 73

Marxist critiques of capitalism
, 8

Mass media
, 5–6

Mass technologies
, 5

Massification
, 54–55

Material architectures
, 139–140

‘Media event’
, 27

Media technologies
, 8–9

‘Mediated misogyny’
, 94

Mediated suffering
, 69–71

‘Medicalized syllogistic structure’
, 4

Melancholia, Freud’s notion of
, 82

‘Metamorphosis’
, 96–97

‘Militarized masculinity’
, 106

Modern subjectivity
, 118

Modernity
, 1–2, 8–9, 16–17, 33–34, 55–56, 67–68

dislocated
, 77–81

‘Moral imagination’
, 16–17

Mortality
, 46

‘Narrative society’
, 34–35

National sentimentality
, 7–8

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
, 100–101

Naturalization of aggression
, 103

‘Necro-economics’
, 143–144

Necroaesthetics
, 146–150

‘Networked misogyny’
, 94

‘Never Again’ projects
, 23

New Iconography
, 140

‘Newness’
, 24

9/11 attacks
, 51–52, 83–84

Online economy
, 70–71

‘Ontological obscenity’
, 24–25

Ontology of Whiteness
, 116–117

Orientalism
, 10, 80, 82

Orientalism of suffering

coloniality and modes of knowing
, 74–77

crises of suffering scholarship
, 67–69

dislocated modernity and elongated coloniality
, 77–81

figure of abject other
, 71–74

mediated suffering and technologies of trauma
, 69–71

shifting axis of suffering
, 81–85

Orientalist production of Other
, 78–79

Other
, 10, 66

precariousness of
, 8

Othering
, 1–2, 9

Pain, trauma and
, 150

‘Pathological disposition’
, 46–47

Perpetual wounding
, 46

Photographic Iconography
, 140

Photographs of Agony
, 24–25, 29–30

Photography
, 138–139

Plague, The (Camus)
, 20–21

‘Platformed racism’
, 94

‘Politics of refusal’
, 125–131

Poor Laws in United Kingdom
, 144–145

‘Pornotropes’
, 9–10

‘Pornotroping’
, 118

Positionality
, 47–48, 69

Post-digital communion with trauma
, 53–56

Post-humanism
, 53–54

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
, 19–20, 32–33, 79, 95–96

Postcolonial Witnessing
, 67–68

Postmodern art
, 50

Precariousness of Others
, 8

Print capitalism
, 7–8

‘Prosthetic trauma’
, 32–33

Prosumer
, 54–55

Protruding
, 135–136

Public events
, 27

Quality of life
, 1–2

‘Queerness’
, 96–97

Racial capitalism
, 8

Racism
, 67–68, 119–120

Rationality
, 1–2

‘Rationalization of emotions’
, 44–45

Reddit
, 95–96

Regarding the Pain of Others
, 34

Rituals of trauma
, 27–28

‘Salvage paradigm’
, 75

‘Scar culture’
, 34

Screen cultures
, 136

Self-generation
, 9

‘Semiotic capitalism’
, 45

Sensorium of witnessing
, 21

‘Shadow archive’
, 43–44

‘Shareability’
, 6

Sharing of sociality
, 6–7

Sharing platforms, virtual witnessing to
, 51–53

‘Slave daguerreotypes’
, 76–77

Social change
, 28

Social Frameworks of Memory, The
, 33

Social justice
, 16–17

Social media
, 98–99

Social networking online
, 99–100

Social psychology of hate online

banalization of hate
, 101–105

digital violence and ‘gamification’ of hate
, 105–106

hate and architecture of internet
, 96–101

‘Social topography’
, 78–79

Sociality
, 6–7

Societal hate
, 104

Society of Spectacle
, 30–31

Socio-cultural contestation
, 17

Sociological theory, trauma in
, 48

‘Spatial logic’
, 148

Spectacular violence
, 52–53

Spectacularization
, 1–2

‘Spectatorial nature of sympathy’
, 44–45

Subjecthood
, 51

Suffering
, 65–66

crises of suffering scholarship
, 67–69

shifting axis of
, 81–85

Superstes
, 48–49

Supplemental violation
, 52–53

Sympathy, vision and the morality of
, 44–45

Technological mediation
, 47–48

Technological witnessing, genealogy of
, 18–26

Technologies of trauma
, 1–2, 6–7, 15–16, 25, 66–67

and ‘repeat’ mode
, 123–125

Betwixt spectacular and everyday
, 29–35

genealogy of technological witnessing
, 18–26

mediated suffering and
, 69–71

trauma and mediated memory as ‘event’
, 26–29

‘Technologies of violence’
, 47

Technologies of vision
, 9–10

Technologies of wounding

digital economy and distribution of trauma
, 57

post-digital communion with trauma
, 53–56

virtual witnessing to sharing platforms
, 51–53

wound, wounded and witnessing
, 43–45

wounding as residing in interstices of inarticulate
, 45–51

Technology
, 1–2, 8, 17–18, 20–21, 28–29, 56

Teletrauma
, 23–24

Televisual technologies
, 75–76

Temporal recombination online
, 125

Temporality of colonialism
, 9

‘Terrors’
, 16–17

Testimonials
, 22, 48–49, 54

Testimonio
, 22

Testis
, 48–49

Theorizing hermeneutics of ‘Black’ horrific
, 121–123

Titanic
, 18

Transcendental boundaries
, 16–17

Transfiguration of trauma
, 3–5

‘Transit lane’
, 16–17

Transmutation of trauma
, 1–2, 50

Trauma
, 1–3, 15–16, 18–19, 45

Betwixt spectacular and everyday
, 29–35

Eurocentric master narrative
, 6–11

and mediated memory as ‘event’
, 26–29

and pain
, 150

post-digital communion with
, 53–56

producing subject of
, 5–6

re-engineered
, 49

in sociological theory
, 48

technologies
, 30

transfiguration of
, 3–5

and violence
, 72–73

‘Trauma aesthetic’
, 1–2, 9–10

Trauma Culture
, 78–79

‘Trial by media’
, 8–9

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
, 22–23

Truth commission
, 23

Twitter
, 95–96

User generated content (UGC)
, 54–55, 93–94, 123–124

Valorization of witness-centric orientations
, 21

‘Veracity gap’
, 43–44

Victimhood
, 10

Video-sharing platforms
, 54–55

Violence
, 54–55, 122–123

trauma and
, 72–73

Violent
, 123

Virality
, 116, 123–124

of internet
, 115–116

Virtual witnessing to sharing platforms
, 51–53

Visual domain
, 141

Visual media
, 75

Vulnerability
, 29–30, 46

Vulnerable Observer, The (Behar)
, 34–35

‘War on terror’
, 83–84, 148–149

Well-being
, 46–47

Western colonialism
, 47

Western imperialism
, 77–78

White Supremacy
, 73–74, 119–120

Whiteness
, 116–117

Witness
, 17–18

Witnessing
, 20, 28–30, 32, 43, 45, 48–49, 54, 69

Wound
, 43–45

Wounded
, 43–45

Woundedness
, 29–30

Wounding as residing in interstices of inarticulate
, 45–51

‘Writing trauma’
, 21