Who Sees Gaza? | The Editors
Susan Sontag (from “Regarding the Pain of Others”):
“Being a spectator of calamities taking place in another country is a quintessential modern experience, the cumulative offering by more than a century and a half’s worth of those specialized tourists known as journalists. Wars are now also living room sights and sounds. Information about what’s
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lareviewofbooks.orgAn essay such as this, then, cannot proceed without mentioning Jean Baudrillard and his exemplary The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (1991). In this text he theorizes that war is fought, above all, on screens, because “representation replaces experience and war becomes a flow of administered images.” This includes the horrific videos of bombings and... See more