Chapter 15: On the Mexican States War on Drug Violence

Chapter 15: On the Mexican States War on Drug ViolenceTransgression in the Representation and Circulation of Los Perros SalvajesHector Fernandez LHoesteContent Analysis Researched web comics in great depth to discover the authenticity and or meaning.TermsAmerindian: The indigenous people of the Americas. Indigenismo: Political ideology drawing on the relation of the nation and the indigenous minorities.Mestizaje: The mixture between Europeans and local tribesWeb 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

Key QuoteClemente 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 (LHoeste 256).Narco-CensorshipThrough 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).

Drug-Cartelshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpW6Ve6ij80https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P5DGuszuxk

Discussion QuestionWhy do political cartoons act as a safe outlet for Mexican freedom of speech in the public sphere? Key QuoteThe 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).Discussion QuestionWhat is the significance from appropriating humans onto mystical creatures? Key QuoteThe 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).Discussion QuestionHow does delivering these comics on the web rather than just print media change anything?Chapter 16: Social Media and the Representation of Summit ProtestsYouTube, Riot Porn, and the Anarchist TraditionMichael TruscelloContent AnalysisResearched YouTube/RiotPorn and how this media outlet has desensitized its viewers to violence in protests. TermsRiot 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 1980s. Its 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.

Black Blochttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tG9Y2E-v8kThe 2010 Toronto G20 Summit Protests25,000 protestersBlack Roc smashed corporate storefronts and burned four police cars

Key QuoteWith 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).Discussion QuestionIs it healthy to watch Riot Porn and live vicariously through other peoples protests on YouTube?Anarchist TraditionInsurrectionist Anarchism: Argues that reforms are illusory and organizedMass Anarchism: Incompatible to anarchism, and emphasized armed actionpropaganda against the ruling classMedia advancements allow these ideas to spread and have anarchist communicate in ways that were not possibleKey QuoteContemporary 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). Discussion QuestionCan YouTube be a site for radical politicswhat affect do these videos have on the viewer?Key QuoteMost 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).Discussion QuestionWhat exactly are these videos doing for us with relation to pornography?On my honor I have not given, nor received, nor witnessed any unauthorized assistance on this work.

-Claudia Alexandra Stoller