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Chapter 15: On the Mexican State’s War on Drug Violence

Chapter 15: On the Mexican State’s War on Drug Violence. Transgression in the Representation and Circulation of Los Perros Salvajes Hector Fernandez L’Hoeste. Content Analysis . Researched web comics in great depth to discover the authenticity and or meaning. Terms.

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Chapter 15: On the Mexican State’s War on Drug Violence

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  1. Chapter 15: On the Mexican State’s War on Drug Violence Transgression in the Representation and Circulation of Los PerrosSalvajes Hector Fernandez L’Hoeste

  2. Content Analysis Researched web comics in great depth to discover the authenticity and or meaning.

  3. Terms Amerindian: The indigenous people of the America’s. Indigenismo: Political ideology drawing on the relation of the nation and the indigenous minorities. Mestizaje: The mixture between Europeans and local tribes Web 2.0: The term given to describe a second generation of the web. It included open communication with an emphasis on Web-based communities of users, and more open sharing of information. Nahuales: Their animal kindred spirit

  4. Key Quote Clemente highlights how modernity, evident in the circulation of this narrative via the Internet, bypasses the habitual channels of social exchanges in national society and invites class conflict” (L’Hoeste 256).

  5. Narco-Censorship Through comics Clemente is critiquing the Mexican government and the Mexican drug cartel system. Narco-Censorship: “A practice that describes the influence of drug cartels on the circulation of news in Mexican society (259).”

  6. Drug-Cartels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpW6Ve6ij80 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P5DGuszuxk

  7. Discussion Question Why do political cartoons act as a safe outlet for Mexican freedom of speech in the public sphere?

  8. Key Quote “The importance of using characters such as Nahuales is they serve as an excuse to discuss the methods of torture of the military and the drug cartels (268).”

  9. Discussion Question What is the significance from appropriating humans onto “mystical creatures”?

  10. Key Quote “The webcomic manages to destabilize a fixed standard: the circulation of a version of reality that promotes the vision of national society promoted by the political and economic interests of the ruling classes (272).”

  11. Discussion Question How does delivering these comics on the web rather than just print media change anything?

  12. Chapter 16: Social Media and the Representation of Summit ProtestsYouTube, Riot Porn, and the Anarchist TraditionMichael Truscello

  13. Content Analysis Researched YouTube/RiotPorn and how this media outlet has desensitized it’s viewers to violence in protests.

  14. Terms Riot Porn: Images and footage from “the front lines”. Anarchist Tradition: Political movement like a world without laws and more like communes. Black Bloc: Emerged in Germany in the 1980’s. It’s a form of protest where all are dressed in black and proceed to disrupt a capitalist summit or even by committing violent acts against private property.

  15. Black Bloc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tG9Y2E-v8k

  16. The 2010 Toronto G20 Summit Protests 25,000 protesters Black Roc smashed corporate storefronts and burned four police cars

  17. Key Quote “With the appearance of YouTube in 2005, and other video- sharing sites, however, riot porn found new life, and the visage of the riot cop… “the death mask of the social” took on an iconic presence in radical visual communication (277)”.

  18. Discussion Question Is it healthy to watch Riot Porn and live vicariously through other peoples protests on YouTube?

  19. Anarchist Tradition Insurrectionist Anarchism: Argues that reforms are illusory and organized Mass Anarchism: Incompatible to anarchism, and emphasized armed action—propaganda against the ruling class Media advancements allow these ideas to spread and have anarchist communicate in ways that were not possible

  20. Key Quote “Contemporary anarchist use of video is both international and in the service of many struggles: “From Palestine to the Philippines, Louisiana to Argentina, anarchists are suing video as a tool in the fight against media monopolies, state violence, racism, occupation, gender norms, patriarchy, global capitalism…(283)”.

  21. Discussion Question Can YouTube be a site for radical politics— what affect do these videos have on the viewer?

  22. Key Quote “Most readers will see the violence of the protest as a local phenomenon, but dismiss the structural violence of global capitalism as a distant and invisible, and therefore inconsequential (290)”.

  23. Discussion Question What exactly are these video’s doing for us with relation to pornography?

  24. “On my honor I have not given, nor received, nor witnessed any unauthorized assistance on this work.” -Claudia Alexandra Stoller

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