
Regarding the Pain of Others
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Narrated by:
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Jennifer Van Dyck
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By:
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Susan Sontag
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returned here to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture. How does the spectacle of the sufferings of others (via television or newsprint) affect us? Are viewers inured - or incited - to violence by the depiction of cruelty?
In Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity - from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of Blacks in the South, and the Nazi death camps, and to more contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Israel, and Palestine, as well as New York City on September 11, 2001.
Sontag once again changes the way we think about the uses and meanings of images in our world, and offers an important reflection about how war itself is waged (and understood) in our time.
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not very insightful
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Still thinking about it.
Don't know if I like it or disappointed that it felt like a mirror of history events throght a lens with no filter or a conclusion.
The reading was way too fast and not pleasant.
The reading was way too fast, not pleasant
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Dope read.
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Profound analys on war photographs
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How did the narrator detract from the book?
The recording sounded like it was playing at double speed, but slowing down the play time had it dragging and catching. It's really hard to listen to such serious (and great) content when it sounds like it's being read by the chipmunks. I would recommend against buying this audiobook.Terrible recording
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