My dissertation project aims, through the Abu Ghraib Prisoner Abuse Scandal, to grapple with the notion of "image as witness"--stated otherwise, the project hopes to interrogate how the images depicting the goings-on at the infamous prison "witness" a particular moment as well as "witness" prior instances of violence towards the "Other".  

     I began my search utilizing the search terms "image", "witness", "richard grusin", and "premediation" which yielded the "Premediation" article, but also resulted in an interesting article by Andrew Hoskins at the University of Warwick, England titled "Temporality, Proximity and Security: Terror in a Media Drenched Age" which can be found in the Journal of International Relations with the abstract locatable at: http://ire.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/20/4/453.

Also terribly interesting is an article by Diana George at Michigan Tech titled "Witness to Voyeur: A Visual Rhetoric of Execution and the Death Penalty Debates" which can be found at http://www.cws.uiuc.edu/initiatives/colloquium/archive/george/

I continued to find fascinating outlets dealing with the original search such as an article titled "Tell Us What is Going to Happen: Information Feeds to the War on Terror" found at: http://www.ctheory.net/articles/aspx?id=518

Even more interesting was a site detailing the proceedings from a News about Networks Workshop in Amsterdam titled "All American Issues: Seven Stories from the Homeland" which centered on the notion of Premediation and can be found at: http://www.issuenetwork.org/node.php?id=46

     I then decided to restart the search utilizing the same search words except substituted "remediation" for "premediation".  This did not yield the kind of results detailed above  although I came across an interesting article titled "Not Necessarily Not the News: Gatekeeping, Remediation and The Daily Show" which I plan on reading simply because it peaked my interest and can be found at: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/mckain3/JACC_244.PDF

I also found an on-line journal discussing the role of witnessing in revealing human rights abuses in "Human Rights, Testimony and Transnational Publicity" located at http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/ps/mclagan2.htm#section2

In addition, an article in the WSU journal Criticism titled "Performing Remediation: The Minstrel, The Camera and The Octoroon" discusses how theater aided in the social construction of photography, which although distant from my own interests instances remediation in a fascinating instance. 

Yet another article titled "Thinking Beyond the Shown: Implicit Inferences in Evidence and Argument" located at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers/cfm?abstract_id=1089109 may prove helpful insofar as one of my chapters focuses on the central picture-taker at Abu Ghraib, Sabrina Hariman who, when questioned about photographing the goings-on at the prison stated "I took pictures because no one would believe someone like me." During her trial, the pictures were interestingly absent given their affective power and referentiality to instances the military hoped to/needed to move past as quickly as possible.

     These two basic searches proved fruitful and I am looking forward to class this Monday evening in order to "unpack" both notions of remediation and premediation in more detail.