On the Act of Looking

Rex Butler is Professor of Art History in the Faculty of Art Design and Architecture at Monash University, Australia. He is the author of the following books: An Uncertain Smile (1996), Jean Baudrillard: The Defence of the Real (1999), A Secret History of Australian Art (2000), Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory (2005), Borges’ Short Stories (2010), Deleuze and Guattari’s What is Philosophy? (2015), A History of UnAustralian Art (2016). Butler is also the editor of What is Appropriation? (1996), Radical Revisionism (2005), The Zizek Dictionary (2012), Lars von Trier’s Women (2016) and The CityCat Project (2017). David Denny is Associate Professor of Culture and Media Studies at Marylhurst University, USA. He has published in the journals International Journal of Zizek Studies, Theory and Event, Elohi Gadugi Journal; and is co-editor of Lars von Trier’s Women (2016).

Introduction
Rex Butler (Monash University, Australia) and David Denny (Marylhurst University, USA)

1. Impunity - Reflections on the 1965 Massacre in Indonesia and its Legacy
Benedict Anderson (Rochester University, USA)
2. Kidnapping all but One
John Roosa (University of British Columbia, Canada)
3. Suharto's Regime
Jeffrey Winters (Northwestern University, USA)
4. Abuses of Human Rights and Censorship in Contemporary Indonesia
Prodita Sabarini (editor of The Conversation, Australia)
5. Sexual Politics in Oppenheimer's Films
Tunggal Pawestri (writer for Jakarta Post, Indonesia)
6. Reflecting on The Act of Killing
Martin Aleida (Journalist, Indonesia)
7. On The Act of Killing and the Modern Trend of Privatising Public Space
Slavoj Žižek (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
8. The Ethics of Making and Looking at The Act of Killing
Robert Sinnerbrink (University of New South Wales, Australia)
9. Ethics in The Look of Silence
Matthew Abbott (Federation University, Victoria, Australia)
10. Participatory Documentary Ecology
Hilary Neroni (University of Vermont, USA)
11. Psychoanalytic Aspects of Witnessing Violence and Death
Steven Miller (Buffalo University, USA)
12. Mise-en-abyme, like Hamlet
Rex Butler (Monash University, Australia)
13. The New Documentary Form
David Denny (Marylhurst University, USA)

Interview - Joshua Oppenheimer
Bibliography
Index