%0 Journal Article
%T The Talk of the Town: 9/11, the Lost Image, and the Machiavellian Moment
%A Dan Fleming
%J Global Media Journal : Canadian Edition
%D 2011
%I University of Ottawa
%X A ˇ°lostˇ± 9/11 photograph re-surfaced publicly in 2005/2006 and triggered some revealing debate in the United States about what 9/11 images ˇ°shouldˇ± show. The paper unpacks the image and some key responses to it in order to describe a contemporary ˇ°Machiavellian momentˇ± in which civic humanist ideals turn out to deny a reality that the image briefly hinted at, a reality recovered in the paper via discussion of a YouTube commentary thread concerned with a 9/11 ˇ°tributeˇ± mashup video derived from comic books. Contrasting the latter with ˇ°properˇ± debate in The New Yorker and elsewhere, the paper argues for the necessity of hearing a different conversation that is discernibly ˇ°out thereˇ±. The result of doing so will be a better understanding of the materialization of affect in images and speech acts. It is argued that this will help us better grasp the nature of the ˇ°hot cognitionsˇ± that focus around a major event such as 9/11 and the ways in which those are mediated.
%K 9/11
%K Affect
%K Cognition
%K Comics
%K Photography
%K Speech Acts
%U http://www.gmj.uottawa.ca/1102/v4i2_fleming.pdf