Exposing Violence

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Media Practices and Aesthetics of Radical Truth

Agnieszka Jelewska, Michal Krawczak

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MIT Press
28 April 2026

Society & culture: general

How small groups and grassroots collectives can act for justice and leverage contemporary media to document violence.

Exposing Violence gathers, for the first time, new tendencies in contemporary media practices that engage in exposing the violence inflicted upon human beings and the environment. It focuses on projects that emerged in the second and third decades of the twenty-first century as forms of socially engaged media activities initiated by independent groups of artists and researchers, interdisciplinary teams emerging at universities, and small laboratory groups.

Agnieszka Jelewska and Michał Krawczak propose an original analytical concept, the aesthetics of radical truth (AeRT), as a modus operandi to understand the specific nature of these projects situated at the intersection of art, science, activism, and engaged journalism. Their primary goal is the development of experimental, innovative, and collective forms of recording, revealing, tracing, identifying, and critically analyzing various manifestations of violence.

The book outlines the beginning of recent developments within ""open justice,"" including the creation of new digital archives and platforms that gather data on violence, interactive environments that facilitate new understanding through the emotional experience of evidence, and tools produced from the grass roots that allow for the tracking and disclosure of violence. The authors also highlight strategies for resisting violence in a media-dense environment.

By: Agnieszka Jelewska, Michal Krawczak
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262053464
ISBN 10: 0262053462
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 28 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Aesthetics as labor for reclaiming truth 2 Radical investigators of military violence 3 Slow violence and data resistance 4 Liquid violence of borderization regimes 5 Digital archives for epistemic justice Epilogue: Towards agglomerative aesthetics of radical truth Appendix Abbreviations Notes References Index

Agnieszka Jelewska is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, and the cofounder of the Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center at AMU. She is the coauthor of Nuclear Gaia. Michał Krawczak is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, and the cofounder of the Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center at AMU. He is the coauthor of Nuclear Gaia.

Reviews for Exposing Violence: Media Practices and Aesthetics of Radical Truth

ENDORSEMENTS “A powerful exploration of how open-source investigation reclaims tools of surveillance for civic truth-making, decolonizing technology, redistributing epistemic authority, and rebuilding democratic accountability from below.” —Eliot Higgins, Founder and Creative Director of Bellingcat