Sep 2026· Theory, Culture & Society· 0 citations· 4 references
Abstract
This article theorizes the concept of ‘shamanic audiovisualization’ – a process whereby the cinematic apparatus itself functions as a ritualistic medium channeling alterity – to challenge logocentric models of testimony and trauma that dominate the archive. Moving beyond the imperative to ‘give voice’, which risks re-performing the violence of the event, I examine how Korean screen media offers an alternative ethical framework. Through an analysis of the Korean film
Spirits’ Homecoming
, directed by Cho Jung-rae in 2016, I argue that the cinematic medium functions as a shamanic conduit. This process, inherently gendered and coded feminine, facilitates a mode of ‘channeling’ alterity that operates through receptivity rather than extraction. Shamanic audiovisualization thus proposes a new social temporality for trauma – one that acknowledges the past without being entrapped by it – and models a politics of emotion that moves beyond wound-based identity toward a future-oriented embrace.
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A. Acevedo-Merlano· Frontiers in Communication· 0 citations
This article conceptualizes the “Trauma-Selfie” as a distinctive form of embodied digital witnessing in mediatized war: the real‑time self‑documentation of extreme violence by victims using mobile phones. Drawing on approximately 300 victim‑generated videos from the 7 October 2023 attack on the Nova music festival, it...
Adva Balzam, Dan Arav· Media, War & Conflict· 0 citations
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Tum Kabīr
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