Act of Killing, Indonesian death-squad TV show

As told 3

“They don't even have this minimum of decency that even the Nazis had... they simply publicly boast about it all.”
~0:00 At Nuit Blache2012-09-29 · 2:06:58

“the beaming moderator turns to the camera and says 'Amazing! Let's give Anwar Congo a round of applause!'”
~0:00 First as Tragedy, Then as Farce2009-10-14 · 1:00:32

“for them, the Indonesian right-wing murderers, to do it, they had to act. They had to identify with Hollywood with Humphrey Bogart, all the noir and so on.”
33:35 Voyeurism and Digital Identity2015-05-18 · 1:31:13

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses

another end of the world is possible ×1 poetic-military complex ×1 Ubuization of power ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer2 Janez Drnovsek1 Alfred Jarry1 Michele Bachmann1 Jonathan Coe1 Anwar Congo2 Philippe Van Parijs2 Ismail Kadare1

alongside works

The Act of Killing3 Discourse on Voluntary Servitude1 The Experiments with Truth (An Autobiography)1 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court1 Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown1 The Exception and the Rule1 21 Grams1 The Palace of Dreams1

Told together with

13% Dating agencies: 'find love without the fall' 2 shared talks

Every retelling 3

~0:00 At Nuit Blache2012-09-29 · 2:06:58

Anwar Congo and former Indonesian death-squad members appear on a state TV talk show, boasting in detail about raping and torturing thousands of people in 1965-66, with audience applause and a cheery moderator, a public obscenity that exceeds even Nazi secrecy., illustrating disintegration of Big Other,end of the world as we know it,no ethnic cleansing without poetry

~0:00 First as Tragedy, Then as Farce2009-10-14 · 1:00:32

In Joshua Oppenheimer's film, former death-squad leaders openly describe and boast about their massacres and rapes, inspired by Hollywood gangster movies; Indonesian state TV celebrated them with applause. Žižek calls this the ethical catastrophe of globalization, even the last remnant of shame (secrecy) is gone., illustrating ethical catastrophe of globalization,Ubuization of power

33:35 Voyeurism and Digital Identity2015-05-18 · 1:31:13

Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary shows Indonesian right-wing killers could only carry out their murders by identifying with Hollywood noir personas, violence is not natural but requires a learned performative script., illustrating staged spontaneity,learned pleasures