Mixing self-selected images of abuse from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal with religious imagery, this paper gives a commentary on the offences committed there. The author notes that this paper is not intended to be an in-depth historical or sociological treatise explaining the abuse at Abu Ghraib. Rather, this paper is a visual semiotic experiment crafted primarily to combat a moral blindness that allows individuals to ignore, or even to justify, such degradation and brutality. By appropriating and re-mixing these images, this work seeks to transform them into messages that call out and question religious, cultural, and political justifications for the use of torture.
Nearly thirty years have passed since the "Columbia Study" surveyed the financial impact of automobile accidents in America.' The Study's findings and proposals are familiar: the pattern of compensation included large areas of economic waste and others of economic * This article is the product of a project undertaken within the aegis of the University of Pennsylvania Law School's Institute of Legal Research with the splendid help of six student researchers and Dr.
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