ABSTRACT
The most obviously utilitarian application of reenactment for purposes of investigation, ¬corroboration, and proof is to reconstruct a crime scene to jog the memory of the public, who may have forgotten details of it or even the whole scene. Very economically, Thomas Hobbes shows how causes and effects can change places in the imagination, with vast implications for reenactment and those who regard the senses as corroborators of imagination. Imagination, for instance, is predominant in war psychoses where the image of a dreadful scene of war only narrowly survived by the dreamer is replayed every night at its original pitch, again and again. Supplements resituate imagination alongside ideas that otherwise would be too sparse, abstract, and neglectful of the particulars of the body’s appetites and delights. This is why Forensic Architecture includes aesthetics in its retinue of concepts to corroborate the truth of events, and why one of its counter-investigations nearly won the Turner Prize.
