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moranguinhos's review against another edition
Graphic: Grief, Gun violence, Colonisation, Murder, Body horror, Gore, War, Genocide, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail
mads_jpg's review against another edition
3.75
These are admittedly very complicated questions to answer, so Sontag's ideas have left me feeling both less and more confused. Maybe it's harder to compare the almost real-time images from Motaz's Instagram stories to the war images filtered through television companies and journalists. Maybe it's a whole different beast seeing images of death through the eyes of someone you have a parasocial relationship with.
But I did leave this book feeling like I understood the desire to document and witness these atrocities, despite all the complications that come along with it. And all the emotions that can come up for people for different reasons, how sympathy can turn to apathy when someone feels hopeless to stop the suffering.
Graphic: Suicide, Misogyny, Antisemitism, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Slavery, Violence, Body horror, Colonisation, Gore, Grief, Blood, Torture, Death, Racism, Sexism, Rape, Sexual violence, and War
pseudolain's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: War, Violence, Torture, Slavery, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Genocide, Antisemitism, Rape, Physical abuse, and Gore
Moderate: Body horror, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, and Child death
honeyvoiced's review
4.25
Graphic: Death and War
Moderate: Genocide, Body horror, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Colonisation
tailwhip's review
3.75
Graphic: War, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, Violence, Gun violence, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail