Who Sees Gaza? | The Editors
“They talk to me about progress, diseases cured, highways built, improved standards of living. I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out.”
Jonathan Crary • Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
” Unfortunately, it may be that war photography of any real power is already dead. In the past few wars in which the USA was involved, photographers were not allowed access to the conflict, but became the mere transmitters of military propaganda. In a way, this is proof of photography’s potency; it must be powerful if the military takes such great
... See moreBill Jay • LensWork #83 (The Bill Jay's Best of EndNotes issue)
Perhaps their photographs don’t make us think of the photographers’ bravery, the way other conflict pictures do, or urge us to immediate action. We look at them anyway, for the change that they bring about elsewhere: in the core of the sympathetic self. We look at them for the way they cooperate with the imagination, the way they contain what canno
... See moreTeju Cole • Known and Strange Things
The real damage is to the lives and livelihoods of the Palestinian people themselves.
Noa Tishby • Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
In context, these artists (like the psychedelic hippies of yore) were being literally countercultural—using culture against itself to violate the hegemonic push toward, in Allin’s and Rice’s case, neoliberal “responsibilization.”
documentjournal.com • The Internet Didn’t Kill Counterculture—you Just Won’t Find It on Instagram
Why then are decent people today afraid to call evil by its name? Why do so many insist on finding moral equivalence? And why do so many people describe the worst of evils—the deliberate targeting of children—with positive-sounding terms like “freedom fighting,” while describing reasonable efforts to prevent these Nazi-like evils as Nazism itself?