Tag Archives: Susan Sontag

From Sontag’s Regarding The Pain of Others

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Malcolm Farley

What to do with such knowledge as photographs bring of faraway suffering? People are often unable to take in the sufferings of those close to them.  […]   For all the voyeuristic lure—and the possible satisfaction of knowing, This is … Continue reading →

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From Sontag’s Regarding The Pain of Others

Posted on July 31, 2010 by Malcolm Farley

To speak of reality becoming a spectacle is a breathtaking provincialism.  It universalizes the viewing habits of a small, educated population living in the rich part of the world, where news has been converted into entertainment—that mature style of viewing … Continue reading →

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From Sontag’s Regarding The Pain of Others

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Malcolm Farley

Photographs that everyone recognizes are now a constituent part of what a society chooses to think about, or delcares that it has chosen to think about.   It calls these ideas “memories,” and that is, over the long run , … Continue reading →

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From Sontag’s Regarding The Pain of Others

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Malcolm Farley

But why is there not already, in the nation’s capital, which happens to be a city whose population  is overwhelmingly  Africa-American, a Museum of the History of Slavery?  Indeed, there is no Museum of the History of Slavery—the whole story, … Continue reading →

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