Cartesian Theater

This week, The Battle of Algiers focuses on the conflict between the occupying colonialist French government and the local population of Algeria, centering on the events of, you guessed it, the battle of Algiers. Intended to be paired with the excerpt from Edward Said's Orientalism,The Battle of Algiers accurately captures the western colonialist sentiment that is impressed on the orient, specifically the middle east, that is illustrated by Said. Although filmed in 1966, The Battle of Algiers still hits uncomfortably close to home with its discussions of “legitimate torture”, the stigmatic treatment of people of middle eastern descent, and the ethicality of urban warfare and su***de bombings.

Don't walk away.

We’ll be watching Waltz with Bashir, a controversal and animated documentary about the first Israeli/Lebanese war by filmmaker Ari Folman; examining this film through the lens of Jacques Rancière’s “distribution of the sensible” as a mechanism of analysis.

Wednesday the 18th in the FAC, Room 339 @ 6PM.

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