typescript report. someone (almost certainly a woman) was sitting at a desk in a police office in 1971 that you've seen in movies or on tv a dozen times, pounding away on typewriter keys to impress these black-inked characters on a blank piece of white paper.
for me it's an image of the workings of Foucauldian micropower: how the toxic force of a police morality and mentality gets transmitted and channeled on paper, paper that a typewriter ribbon has passed over and transmitted inked characters, characters that are carefully centered (physically since there was no paragraph-formatting button to push), sometimes IN SOLID CAPS FOR THE POLICING AUTHOR-ITY, sometimes underlined which involved going back over the text, all in an unvarying but uneven and slightly wavering Courier font. Copied, mailed or carried, read, and shaping the mentalities
My first reaction to this image was curiosity. The image itself doesn't give much away; however, the use of text helps the reader understand what they are looking at. Perhaps the text could be more powerful with a particular situation of police oppression - although that might just as easily take away from all the other oppressions that were experienced. The best part about this image/text is the awareness that it spreads to readers about a topic they might not know about or might have chosen to forget about. Great job!
My first reaction to this image was curiosity. The image itself doesn't give much away; however, the use of text helps the reader understand what they are looking at. Perhaps the text could be more powerful with a particular situation of police oppression - although that might just as easily take away from all the other oppressions that were experienced. The best part about this image/text is the awareness that it spreads to readers about a topic they might not know about or might have chosen to forget about. Great job!
Police and policing mechanisms bring to mind many forms of toxicity. In many ways, the visualizing of the term "police" interpellates the reader right away. The text is affective. Like a Jenny Holzer or Barbara Kruger piece, the observer is meant to read, engage, and/or question their own positionality in reference to the text (the text in this instance as with your other artifact is the image).
