War and film are a single continuous technological event
Evidence
Coppola makes his film like the Americans made war - in this sense, it is the best possible testimonial - with the same immoderation, the same excess of means, the same monstrous candor … and the same success. The war as entrenchment, as technological and psychedelic fantasy, the war as a succession of special effects, the war become film even before being filmed. The war abolishes itself in its technological test, and for Americans it was primarily that: a test site, a gigantic territory in which to test their arms, their methods, their power. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 194
Categorization
- XREF: Illustrates the collapse between medium and event that defines the simulacrum; pairs with McLuhan on the medium as message. — connects to: Film representation is instrumental to making war targets visible; Even critically aware individual-focused films still serve ideology — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 111; Mediatized terror treats media as constitutive rather than reflective of conflict — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 359 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Film representation is instrumental to making war targets visible
#expands(0.82) - Mediatized terror treats media as constitutive rather than reflective of conflict
#expands(0.78) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 359 - Continuous drug use and war films created a totalizing reality for child soldiers
#exemplifies(0.75) — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 475 - Film and architecture can philosophize in their own media rather than illustrating ideas
#corroborates(0.74) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 317 - Even critically aware individual-focused films still serve ideology
#exemplifies(0.72) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 111