Regarding the Pain of Others

By M. Harris. 2004

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Education and the Dangerous Memories of Historical Trauma: Narratives of Pain, Narratives of Hope (2008, background): “(Sontag, 2003, pp. 76–77, emphasis original) The duty to remember is a duty to teach, whereas the duty to forget is a duty to go beyond anger and hatred.”
Timelining: visualizing experience (2011, background): “An instant, captured by a photograph, can confine and define experience (Barthes, 1982; Sontag, 2003).”
Understanding the power of the picture: the effect of image content on emotional and political responses to terrorism (2014, background): “This nuanced approach extends conceptual analyses of visual images (e.g., Sontag, 2003), which have focused more generally on the broad power of photographs to present visually compelling material.”
‘This is your face on meth’: The punitive spectacle of ‘white trash’ in the rural war on drugs (2013, background): “Given this, we ask how these ‘faces’ might force spectators to confront issues they would rather avoid (Sontag, 2002: 7).”