tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post3717691843150482682..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: postcards from dystopia (1984 / 2017) / hawser view (The Final Moments)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-92012435444361288222017-07-01T16:12:05.815-07:002017-07-01T16:12:05.815-07:00That's exactly the feeling. History as permane...That's exactly the feeling. History as permanent self-repeating stasis. A kind of Purgatory. <br /><br />This war that's happened over and over and won't stop happening, yet nobody remembers.<br /><br />As Orwell anticipated. Prescient in his morbid depression, dying of tb, seeing the future in the present of his own time.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-72134597534854231942017-07-01T11:56:07.647-07:002017-07-01T11:56:07.647-07:00Tom, Your initial Orwell post this week put me in...Tom, Your initial Orwell post this week put me in mind of your recent Borges posts, Two Tales of the Frontier. Maybe not in topic but in syntax, as the poet might say. They sounded to my ear very much alike. There is none of that cadence in this Orwell post, tho, at least to my ear. It's more of a matter of a kind of Vico detonation. It's like a super text reading of John Gray's, the Brit philosopher, idea of no human progress then, now or ever -- an idea which these image envelop. The cinematic sebati images, especially. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01470550030762320139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-37821582990293994202017-07-01T05:07:41.732-07:002017-07-01T05:07:41.732-07:00The principal photographer here is Sebati Kara...The principal photographer here is Sebati Karakurt, photojournalist and editor from the Turkish daily Hürriyet, who has been covering the Iraq wars since c.2003. He was embedded with Coalition and US troops (82nd Airborne) in Kirkuk, Fallujah and Baghdad, among other places. Yes, that very scary place is Abu Ghraib prison, in case you were wondering.<br /><br />Karakurt's career is living proof that the the photojournalist's job in a war zone can be extremely harrowing work, fraught with mortal dangers. During the fiercest fighting in Fallujah, he was captured by insurgents who forced him to undress and were preparing to cut his throat before it was recognized he was Muslim, and travelling with a former Republican Guard.<br /><br />In 2004, an article on improvements of relations between genders among Kurdish militants ("Women's Consciousness Has Surpassed Kurdism in Kandil") got him into serious trouble with Turkish authorities, landing him in prison when he refused to surrender photographs of those he had interviewed.<br /><br />Karakurt has been back in Iraq during the battle against IS in Mosul. <br /><br /><a href="https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=tr&sp=nmt4&u=http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/video/hurriyet-muhabirleri-musul-tunellerinde-40317798&usg=ALkJrhi5yyxkuyJVhaAe1ZVsKMgqFhr9Pw" rel="nofollow">26 December 2016: In Islamic State's subterranean tunnel network, Mosul, with Hürriyet reporter Aydiz Gülden, camera work by Sebati Karakurt</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com