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Lo spettacolo del naufragio Migrazioni, luoghi visuali e politica delle emozioni

2018

«No "we" should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain». Referring to Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf, Susan Sontag argues for re-thinking the debate on images of war starting from a new and troubling point: the "we" at whom such shock-pictures are aimed. If the spectacle of suffering can turn into a silent and unproductive sympathy, it is only questioning its viewers and their geometries of power that the field of visibility can become a space of responsibility and cultural criticism. The aim of this paper is to move beyond the contemporary European representation of migrations and to critically explore the political, economic and cultural relations underly…