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Fig. 3.8 School Shootings eMorial by John Craig Freeman with Gregory L. Ulmer, National Mall
just west of the U.S. Capital Building, Washington DC, 2013, Augmented reality public art
School in Newtown, CT (12/14/2012) were designed for the imaginations of 6-year-
olds, perhaps already beyond the whimsy of Dora the Explorer and her backpack
friend. Backpacks were the disguise of choice by the Chechen brothers for the
IEDs targeting the Boston Marathon finish line, detonated by a connection between
a cell phone and a toy car (04/15/2013). Chechen separatists took hostage 1,100
people (777 children) at a school in Beslan, Russian Federation (09/01/2004). Of the
334 killed in the 3-day siege, 186 were children. There is a certain inference trace
passing through these events, bringing into appearance an opposition, a fundamental
violence, archetypal, an irreducible polarity throwing apart two apparatuses - Oral
and Alphabetic, Religion and Science. The emblem is made explicit in the name of a
group responsible for burning down a school in Nigeria, murdering 29 students and
a teacher (07/06/2013): Boko Haram , The classroom as Frontier . Recall the Khmer
Rouge, the genocide of the killing fields of Cambodia (1975-1978, 1.7 million
dead), in which anyone suspected of being educated was murdered. Is there a pattern
gathering this path into a pathology? Is the Reign of Terror native to modernity
(France 09/05/1793-07/28/1794): the guillotine (16,594 executions)? An eMorial
translates one-at-a-time disasters into a public sacrifice on behalf of a national value.
In the United States from 1960 to 2013, 1.3 million Americans have died from gun
violence. These dead are commemorated today, martyrs to the Second Amendment
to the Constitution, honored as members of a Minute Man Militia (three Americans
killed each and every hour, each and every day). A society is measured by what it
values.
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