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“There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching.”
Sontag, Susan

“It seems that the appetite for pictures showing bodies in pain is as keen, almost, as the desire for ones that show bodies naked. For many centuries, in Christian art, depictions of hell offered both of these elemental satisfactions.”
Sontag, Susan

Randy Shilts
“What society judged was not the severity of the disease but the social acceptability of the individuals affected with it…”
Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

“Under the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 emancipating the enslaved in most of Britain’s colonies, the British state agreed to pay £20 million compensation to slave owners and other beneficiaries of slavery such as mortgagees and annuitants who had financial claims secured on the enslaved.”
Draper, Nicholas

“Being a spectator of calamities taking place in an other country is a quintessential modern experience, the cumulative offering by more than a century and a half's worth of those professional, specialized tourists known as journalists.”
Sontag, Susan

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