Dr. Henrichs
Essay 1
Sobchack and Malone have written essay that aim to show how violence has an impact on who we are, and the people we aim to be. Both authors have their muses, Sobchack uses media as hers, while Malone uses the city of Detroit. Both Sobchack and Malone aim to show that violence through these many outlets have an impact on who we are and what we are to become; they strive to change the way we perceive violence and hope for a social revolution.
Sobchack writes about how technology can foster a sense of violence. This violence is represented in the forms of media and a majority of our daily life. Sobchack uses many tools and techniques to get her point across. Sobchack’s topic of technology focuses mainly on how …show more content…
This fictional violence desensitizes us to the true violence, through these various forms of media we feel that our actions will not have the repercussions they deserve. Sobchack told us “those films that describe violent bodily destruction evoke no tears in the face of mortality and evidence no concern for the fragility of flesh.”(Sobchack, 120) Although the violence we see is fictional, the horrific nature of these violent acts has no effect on us; we seem to be unmoved by such heinous …show more content…
When one thinks of Detroit, you tend to think of gangs, turf wars, crappy living conditions, and/or drug use. Malone aims to inform and maybe change the mindset of people. In Malone’s writing An Economic Disaster Porn she searched Detroit on Google, rather than finding pictures or articles of anything synonymous with Detroit, she found things about the ruins of Detroit. Malone doesn’t view Detroit as a wasteland, like a majority of people do. I think Malone sees Detroit as a possible blank canvas, that although Detroit is full of violence and isn’t the most appealing place to live, there is still potential. The violence in Detroit is so bad that some people are giving up on the city, including the media. The media has chosen not to report what is truly going on in the city. The media plays a curtail role in how we perceive a place. What we see and hear about Detroit makes the city seem almost inhabitable. We as a society have learned to take what the media says as absolute truth. When we hear about the actions of the people of Detroit, our instinctual reaction is to be turned away. Through this we can end up giving up on all hopes of Detroit being a good