Representing Contemporary War (Regarding the Pain of Others) (Book Review) Representing Contemporary War (Regarding the Pain of Others) (Book Review)

Representing Contemporary War (Regarding the Pain of Others) (Book Review‪)‬

Ethics & International Affairs 2003, Oct, 17, 2

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Descripción editorial

Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), 144 pp., $20 cloth. Despite living in an age commonly understood as being awash with images of atrocity, there are few writers who theorize the relationship between political conflict and its pictorial representation. This relative absence means that various assertions about the power of pictures have come to dominate popular understanding. Foremost among these are two fundamentally contradictory claims, which, Susan Sontag observes, are "fast approaching the stature of platitudes." (1) One, the "CNN effect" is that the power of news imagery is such that it can alter the course of state policy simply by virtue of being broadcast. The other, the "compassion fatigue" thesis, argues that the abundant supply of imagery has dulled our senses and created a new syndrome of communal inaction.

GÉNERO
Política y actualidad
PUBLICADO
2003
1 de octubre
IDIOMA
EN
Inglés
EXTENSIÓN
24
Páginas
EDITORIAL
Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
TAMAÑO
275,2
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