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What looks like callousness toward images of suffering comes from the unstable attention television is built to arouse and satiate
Drawn from what Susan Sontag said
What Susan Sontag actually said
- Susan Sontag American writer and critic (1933 to 2004)
Images shown on television are, by definition, images of which, sooner or later, one tires. What looks like callousness has its origin in the instability of attention that television is organized to arouse and to satiate, by its surfeit of images.
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↗Looking at War (The New Yorker)newyorker.com
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