Unit:
Speciality Social Theory and Social ResearchLibrary of the Faculties of Political Science and Public Administration, Communication and Mass Media Studies, Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, Sociology
Author:
Gkogkou Sara-Vasiliki
Supervisors info:
Γεράσιμος Κουζέλης, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης, ΕΚΠΑ
Σταύρος Σταυρίδης, Καθηγητής, Σχολή Αρχιτεκτόνων Μηχανικών, ΕΜΠ
Δημήτρης Καρύδας, επιστημονικός συνεργάτης, Πανεπιστήμιο Humboldt του Βερολίνου
Original Title:
Εναλλακτικές αποτυπώσεις και μέσα αναπαράστασης. Η περίπτωση της ερευνητικής ομάδας Forensic Architecture.
Translated title:
Alternative depictions and representational media. The case study of research agency Forensic Architecture
Summary:
This master thesis aims at investigating the way new social relations are created by new media. This research was conducted through reading W. Benjamin ‘s theory and analyzing the way the latter is employed by the contemporary case study of research agency Forensic Architecture. Essential points of linkage between Benjamin‘s theory and Forensic Architecture’s methodology are the subversive use of image, the importance of detail and trace that derives from his distinctive method of historiography and media theory, and the critical approach of his project that emerges through dialectical relations. For this purpose, this research stresses the importance of trace and materiality of things in the process of deconstructing the myth that surrounds them, the dialectical image as a theoretical tool that enables him to read the past through “dialectic at a standstill” and montage as his method of critical historiography. Furthermore, it presents the way that new media reform sensory perception and comprehension of history and memory. Specifically, it focuses on binary use of media in Benjamin’s theory both as an anaesthetic technique of perception and as a potential for its activation. Finally this research attempts to analyze the way in which questions, remaining still relevant, unfold into the research project of Forensic Architecture and its distinctive way to reverse dominant representations and allow the deciphering of alternative images.
Main subject category:
Social, Political and Economic sciences
Keywords:
Walter Benjamin, Forensic Architecture, image, trace, representational media
