Annotation---Regarding the Pain of Others

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Annotation---Regarding the Pain of Others
Regarding the pain of others Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag frist started with the difficulty of communication about the question "How in your opinion are we to
prevent war?"between Virginia Woolf and an eminent lawyer in London.Then Sontag analyze the relationship
beween images and war,and the images could be perceived and understand accounding the difference between such
factors as sex and cultureand status.
Sontag quote from Virginia Woolf again No "we" should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other
people's pain. In order to explain the role of we and others.we are the viewer of images, sympathizers, those
only nominally concerned about some nasty war taking place in another country. others is the victims of the war
who been ducumented into photographs.
The subjective and Objective of the image,( Cyberntic filters?)
Sontage believe war imagery is open to both interpretation and manipulation.Images could be used and reused,and
also forged and manipulated by political or commercial purpose and the need of mass media.Images make events
seem "real" to viewers, how ever the reality been covered by amount of filters. first filtered through image-takers,
then selected and by media sometimes may be authorities then present with different forms and format; news
paper, television and network source.
Sontag also mention how technology and media provide more convenient way for people to receive high frequency
of repetition of violence and war image. In fact, there are many uses of the innumerable opportunities a modern life
supplies for regarding at a distance, through the medium of photography other people's pain. For a long time
some people believed that if the horror could be made vivid enough, most people would finally take in the
outrageousness, the insanity of war.
Key words
we and others
subjective and Objective
pain and entertainment
Reality and dreams
Cybernetic filters
Article Sources and Contributors
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Article Sources and Contributors
Annotation---Regarding the Pain of Others Source: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/mediawiki/index.php?oldid=38106 Contributors: Nan Wang