Degree: Ph.D.
Format: Network-accessible CD-ROM
Description:
An analysis of the 1991 war in the Persian Gulf, authored as an interactive CD-ROM. It is a critical response to a popular and academic discourse that had an overwhelming tendency to claim Operation Desert Storm heralded a new era of high- tech combat that served only to remove us from the horror and reality of war. I argue instead that the massively mediated representation of The Gulf War was neither particularly new nor unreal, and that what was more interesting than the professed newness or unreality of this war was how it generated a whole discourse about its being unreal, and the role technology played in shaping this discursive field.
URL: http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/~nideffer/BNACon.html