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"The imaginary proximity to the suffering inflicted on others that is granted by images suggests a link between the faraway sufferers - seen close-up on the television screen - and the privileged viewer that is simply untrue, that is yet one more mystification of our real relations to power. So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering."
— Oct 10, 2026 12:57AM
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is on page 41 of 117
"It seems that the appetite for pictures showing bodies in pain is as keen, almost, as the desire for ones that show bodies naked." // "There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching." // "In each instance, the gruesome invites us to be either spectators or cowards, unable to look."
— Oct 06, 2026 02:16AM