[DOWNLOAD] ~ Introduction: Aesthetics of Atrocity ~ by Afterimage ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Introduction: Aesthetics of Atrocity
- Author : Afterimage
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Performing Arts,Books,Arts & Entertainment,Business & Personal Finance,Industries & Professions,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 49 KB
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In "Wound Culture: Trauma in the Pathological Public Sphere" (1997), Mark Seltzer approaches our "wound culture" in terms of the collapse of private and public (subject and world), claiming (as Susan Sontag later would) that there is a "public fascination with torn and open bodies and torn and open persons," calling it a "collective gathering around shock, trauma, and the wound." Using examples from literature and film, Seltzer examines this element of spectacle, what he refers to as the "pathological public sphere," concluding that "sociality and the wound have become inseparable," an intriguing commentary on the collective response to images of trauma. (1) In Regarding the Pain of Others (2003), Sontag offers a historical survey of representations of atrocity, focusing on images of war using examples ranging from Goya's early nineteenth-century "Disasters of War" to one of the many exhibitions of 9/11 photographs, "Here is New York." She begins to get at the politics of meaning-making when she notes that such photographs elicit varied and opposing reactions, ranging from calls for peace to cries for revenge as well as "bemused awareness ... that terrible things happen." She points out (rightly so when one considers the speed of image capture, dissemination, and simultaneous access) that this witnessing of atrocities is an inevitable condition of modernity and that the knowledge of war gained by those who have not experienced it firsthand is informed exclusively by such images, which are considered as "real." She writes of the shame and shock of looking at horror and questions who should have the right to experience these images suggesting it is only those with the ability to alleviate the suffering, and claiming those without that agency to be voyeurs. (2)
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