The release date for the English version of 'Regarding the Pain of Others' by
Susan Sontag is Jan 2004. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Susan Sontag revisits the topic of contemporary visual depictions of violence and conflict in our society, twenty-five years after publishing her seminal work On Photography. What effects do we feel when we see or read about the suffering of others in newspapers or on television? Does the portrayal of brutality numb viewers or encourage them to commit violent crimes?
Sontag examines atrocity representation in Regarding the Pain of Others, ranging from Goya's The Disasters of War to images of the American Civil War, black lynchings in the South, Nazi death camps, and more recent, horrifying pictures of Israel and Palestine, Rwanda, Bosnia, Sierra Leone, and New York City on September 11, 2001. Susan Sontag delivers an insightful analysis of how war is fought (and perceived) in the modern day in Regarding the Pain of Others, once again upending our preconceived notions about the functions and meanings of pictures in our society.
includes a study on our numb reaction to scary pictures. This title modifies our understanding of the nature of war, the boundaries of empathy, the duties of conscience, and the applications and interpretations of imagery.