Der Krieg in der Black Box des Friedens: Der Tag des Spatzen mit einem Ausflug in die politische Ökologie
Panse, Silke (2021) Der Krieg in der Black Box des Friedens: Der Tag des Spatzen mit einem Ausflug in die politische Ökologie. In: Grenzfälle. Dokumentarische Praxis zwischen Film und Literatur bei Merle Kröger und Philip Scheffner. Verlag Vorwerk 8, Berlin, pp. 133-154. ISBN 9783947238354
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This chapter written in German sets a documentary about a sparrow who had been shot in a contract killing by a television company — as it interfered with an event to be recorded — in dialogue with Bruno Latour’s notion of political ecology and Baruch Spinoza’s affectual Ethics. In a complex choreography in which flying animals and humans with and in flying weapons collide and exclude one another, the documentary connects the death of the sparrow in apparent peace in the Netherlands with the death of a German soldier in war in Afghanistan. This paper contrasts the documentary, which the filmmaker has referred to as a “political nature film,” with political ecology. It responds specifically to Latour’s example of the ‘hybrid actors’—the ‘gun-citizen’ and the ‘citizen-gun’ (1999: 179)—and objects that there only gun-citizens, but no one who is shot; only perpetrators, but no victims. In this emphasis on action of political ecology, those acted upon are blocked out. That a body can also affect another body by diminishing its power of acting, as Spinoza writes in his Ethics (1677), is averted in Latour’s example. In the emphasis on action of political ecology, those acted upon are blocked out. In response to Latour’s action composites that obscure their effects, I suggest an ecological ethics which acknowledges that bodies can be affected to the point of extinction; beyond a flat ontology in which a species cannot become extinct because it does not matter. The paper develops Spinoza’s notion of the body with respect to the body of a film as constituted through affects and affections, and considers what bodies are part of the body of a film.
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