Killer Entertainments
By Jennifer Terry
Design by Raegan Kelly
Editors' Introduction
Jennifer Terry's Killer Entertainments presents challenges to both designers and users on many levels. How to critically address videos shot by soldiers engaged in combat without sensationalizing, decontextualizing or trivializing them? How to provide access to such a diverse and extensive range of work? How to insert commentary, context and background information while preserving the raw power of the original videos? In response to these challenges, author Jennifer Terry and designer Raegan Kelly developed a rhetoric of connection and accretion which resists linearity and the seductiveness of a single argument illustrated with evidence. Users are led toward no single interpretation; no replacement ideology takes over from that of the Administration's party line. Indeed the text allows for and even encourages responses based in idiosyncracy and uncertainty. The source material presented here all comes from "the Internet," but what does that mean? What can it mean? Which of the sites hosting these materials are "real" and which are run by counter-intelligence agencies hoping to track usage patterns among potential dissidents via IP addresses?
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