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Affective Imagery: Screen Militarism

This book chapter presents research on the study of screen affect in relation to digital technologies such as mobile cameras and the use of YouTube as a political site. Here the research is applied to describe how screen based moving images can communicate political epistemology. This chapter explores affective images in contemporary screen media. The chapter focuses upon the relationships generated by different technological platforms, the communities that use them (in this case the military), and the aesthetics of such combinations (in this case, viral digital videos), and makes an analysis of the affective impact of images of war and activities of militarism. The chapter uses empirical media research and applied continental philosophy to engage with its content, and develop the themes of the politics and aesthetic of media images. The chapter draws from but develops the Deleuze and Guattarian concept of the machinic to present research on how changes in technology have produced different accounts of activities of militarism. The chapter is reviewed in the Notre Dame Philosophical Review (http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=20107), where the reviewer, Antonio Calcagno (The University of Western Ontario), notes; “Colman's essay poignantly reminds one of the deep political and critical project focus of Deleuze's work, which ultimately aims at counteracting forms of fascism, both at the macro and micro levels.”