Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag

8 reviews

dchalamish's review against another edition

dark informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, War, and Violence

moranguinhos's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

still so relevant, 20 years after being published. war and history is cyclical & people are still figuring out ways to compartmentalize the atrocities. Sontag’s predictions about the future of news and online information are spot on.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gun violence, Colonisation, Murder, Body horror, Gore, War, Genocide, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

mads_jpg's review

dark informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

After seeing so many haunting images from Gaza of Palestinians either dead or dying, many of them children, I wanted to understand it all better. Whether violent imagery creates lasting pathos, whether we should look or if it's just self flagellation, and whether images like these can actually make significant change.

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.

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Content Warnings

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

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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 against another edition

informative reflective

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and War

Moderate: Genocide, Body horror, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Colonisation

sarahrose_a's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Violence, War, Body horror, Child death, Death, Rape, and Genocide

orndal's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

Leste denne på jobb. Noen av essayene er bedre enn andre, men Sontag i Balkan er ... opp til hver enkelt leder, vil jeg si. Ikke hopp over etterordet, der var det mye interessant om Sontag i sin samtid!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Body horror, Blood, Classism, Confinement, and Genocide

lizlikesfrogs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War and Genocide