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Classifying Witnesses of Violence: Parsing Susan Sontag’s Distinction Between the Voyeur and Non-Voyeur (and a Hesitant Defense of War Photography)

Classifying Witnesses of Violence: Parsing Susan Sontag’s Distinction Between the Voyeur and Non-Voyeur (and a Hesitant Defense of War Photography)

by matheu | Mar 26, 2022 | Questions

In Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag, in a way, indicts those who seek out depictions of violence without the intention or ability to provide aid to those being harmed: “Perhaps the only people with the right to look at images of suffering of…extreme order...
The Imperfection of Memory and the Limitations of Testimony

The Imperfection of Memory and the Limitations of Testimony

by matheu | Feb 18, 2022 | Questions

“The sound of a dream came to the tyrant, wandering into his mind, about how the world was wondrously transformed, unlike the ages before the new creation. In sleep the truth was made known to him that the cruel end of each empire must happen, must come about...
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