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Premediation: Affect and Mediality After 9 11 by Richard A. Grusin

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The second panel shows a photographer as vulture with an old-style box camera taking pictures of the crying Katz-and-Jammer tower-head kids. The text boxes reprieve Spiegelman’s concern with the relation between mediated and unmediated experience: “In mere moments their quiet Soho street was FILLED with paparazzi. And camera crews remained on their corner, at the perimeter of Ground Zero, for days after ... [new box] He saw the falling bodies on tv much later ... ” And the bottom sequence reprieves his rooted cosmopolitan line from the introduction, likening himself to Jews who didn’t leave Berlin after Kristallnacht and also reiterating his embodied “pang of affection for his familiar, vulnerable streets” (Spiegelman, 2004, p.

Another comic sequence on this first page also addresses the televisual mediation of the attack on the towers. The first of three panels shows the first tower smoking and wounded after its attack; the second panel has Dan Rather with flag-like red/white stripes over his shoulder in the upper-right corner, with the words “NEW ATTACK” across it; and the third panel shows Spiegelman himself sitting on the floor smoking, looking up at a TV with a flag for a screen. Across all three panels is a dashed yellow line leading to the rear of a plane crashing into Spiegelman’s TV as if it were the second of the towers.

In other words we failed to understand fully the way in which Strange Days was already participating in a logic of premediation insofar as it both pre-mediated the United States (particularly Los Angeles) nearly five years into the future and pre-mediated future media practices and technologies. In depicting the “wire” as a device that records one person’s sensory perception of the past (according to the logic of appropriate media forms) and makes it available in the future for playback by another person (through means of appropriate media technologies), Strange Days anticipated one aspect of premediation in imagining future media technologies as remediations of current ones.

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