The amateur images of Cho: pitfalls of subjectivity in contemporary technoculture

Abstract

This work aims to provoke questions about the uses of amateur images in contemporary technoculture. These images have been participating more and more of the “routes of subjectivity”. As a motto for this analysis, we investigated the case of Cho Seung-hui, a student from Virginia Tech that, in April 2007, before killing teachers and students and killing himself, produced a material which named as Multimedia Manifesto.