The journalistic project Atlas der Angst by Dirk Gieselmann and Armin Smailovic is to be understood and interpreted as an example of a ‘new’ kind of war journalism. It stresses the necessity for a new type of war reporting that will ultimately become necessary by changes in the matter of war itself. It does not concern the (subjective or documenting) portrayal of conflict nearly as much as the reconstruc tion of images of memory, historic locations and the mapping of diffuse systems of expression. A particular type of recording (as a superimposition) characterises the Atlas der Angst. The Atlas attempts to read war as the consequence of preceding ‘fear’ (or paranoia), and registers war, violence and conflict as the consequence of this fear. Moreover, it examines the reasons for this fear. It questions memory; it questions space and places; it examines patterns of orientation.
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