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California State University, Dominguez Hills
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Created: October 26, 2001
Latest update: October 27, 2001
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Hiroshima in Ruins by Patrick Lichty

Hiroshima in Ruins

Aphasiasms by Patrick Lichty

Review and Essay by Jeanne Curran, Susan R. Takata, and Olivier Urbain
Copyright: Jeanne Curran, Susan R. Takata, and Olivier Urbain: October 2001.
and Individual Authors. "Fair Use" encouraged.

I just uploaded the image from the frAme site to this one, because in trying to put up instructions for you on using the frAme site, my whole computer crashed. For the next seven weeks of this semester I don't want to mess with that again. I hope the instructions will work for you. If not, for the next seven weeks you'll just have to settle for the image above. On my last try before the crash, the link to the image above and to Aphasiasms worked. jeanne, October 27, 2001.
When you access the Lichty file, Aphasiams, Netscape opens another window that is labeled "Everthing" To see the artwork click on that new Window.To go through the Artwork click on each image as it comes up.
The Images:
  • Jean Baudrillard: Everything Has Become Culture
  • Panic Nietzsche
  • Hiroshima in Ruins
  • Place Kierkegaard's Face Here
  • Land of the Posts
  • Rite

This is the blurb that accompanies Lichty's Hiroshima in Ruins.

"Hiroshima in Ruins" At the end of history (Baudrillard, Fukuyama), information is no longer equated with knowledge or memory. It is merely information that replicates itself in endless repetition as it is distributed across the media nets. And this is no more evident than with the American Media Infotainment Machine, which addicts us with calamity, both past and present to give Western society a vicarious thrill of impending danger after the end of the Cold war. So we sit in our overstuffed chairs, eating greasy snacks while we watch smart bombs on CNN and rehashed A-Bomb films on the History channel. (Photo prep. omitted.) "

I had several reasons for putting up this file. First of all, I like the frAme Site, even if it has apparently threatened to crash my computer. I was intrigued by Patrick Lichty's work. And I just happened on to the Site as I was preparing the Week 10 Issue of the Fall 2001 Dear Habermas. I had just responded to an IPRA questionnaire on peacemaking courses which include references and/or sections devoted to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The topic certainly fits well into our course on Transforming Discourse, particularly in the face of our War on Terrorism.