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4.08 AVERAGE
4.08 AVERAGE
slow-paced
It is Sontag, so the writing can be dense at points and you'll have to google a lot of words. There is a lot if crossover with On Photography, but this time dealing with mass atrocities. Lots of things here made me think. Good ending.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Blood, War
dark
informative
medium-paced
Rip Susan Sontag, you would probably have to write a continuation of this if you saw genocides being live streamed to our phone while we scroll to the next short form video.
reflective
sad
A call to be present and reflective when viewing images of war, to recognize the depravity humanity is and has always been capable of. Not to rely solely on images of war, which can be manipulated, but to reflect on them through historical/political context and narrative.
“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.”
“Citizens of modernity, consumers of violence as spectacle, adepts of proximity without risk, are schooled to be cynical about the possibility of sincerity. Some people will do anything to keep from being moved. How much easier, from ones chair, far from danger, to claim the position of superiority”.
“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.”
“Citizens of modernity, consumers of violence as spectacle, adepts of proximity without risk, are schooled to be cynical about the possibility of sincerity. Some people will do anything to keep from being moved. How much easier, from ones chair, far from danger, to claim the position of superiority”.
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
informative
informative
reflective
medium-paced
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
challenging
dark
informative
medium-paced
challenging
dark
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sad
fast-paced
An anti-communist who unfortunately was a great essayist with an incredible viewpoint of art, history, war, and colonialism. This is a fascinating collection of essays, but the complete absence of the Israeli occupation of Palestine—of which plenty artists had written about, taken photographs of, created art of by the early 2000s when this collection was released—in favor of highlighting white western artists whose work didn’t focus on zionist crimes speaks volumes about Sontag and her artistic, political, and ethical failures.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Rape