Abu Ghraib, the image and Israel Paranoia State

> Those images are only a part of a painful and sorry sight played by a
> despotic power! The Abu Ghraib pictures are not art works, even someone
> may understand photography as pure and simple imitation of actual things
> or photography as a simply reproductive tool. Because those are images of
> phantoms in a cave, in platonic sense. The victims of abuses are others,
> they are nobodies, completing forgotten on your own pain. From this
> pictures, we know nothing about their lives or their feelings and the
> dominant impression when contemplating them is the gratuite exposure of
> shadows in a wall. The bric-a-brac of the bodies reminds red meat in a
> slaughterhouse, carcass plunder as the work of a butcher.
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> I think we are living a time where cruelty took the place of capitalism
> cynicism, what was unthinkable years ago: punishement made the rules,
> scourge is before law, as "In the Penal Colony" of Kafka. The passivity
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> the silence of international law behind terror regime of Israel, doing the
> law means nothing! The only law is the barbarie and savagery of Isreal
> state
> that have been killed dozen and dozen of lebanese and palestine children,
> beyond the eyes of the world! And this strange passivity and silence may
> be
> a sign, a sympton of excess of sorrow, a overplus uneasiness for such orgy
> of blood. The war machiney of Israel have been unmasked as a paranoic and
> perverse machine. In a delerium of destruction, soldiers, rabbin and jews
> psychologists going to the desert to do a new holocauste, the ultimate
> sacrifice in the name of Jehova. A new alliance between USA and Isreal
> consolidate the revenge of the Israel sons against the descendents of the
> cananeus and filisteus, the original people of the hebraist promised land.
> The Isreal policy to palestine land is a irrational paranoica one, haven't
> no concerne about rights or justice, but is determined by the desire of
> revenge.
> In fact, this is the only motive for the terribles crimes accomplished by
> the Army of Isreal, to give cruelity a new horrible meaning.
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>> Joao
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>> On Jul 21, 2006, at 7:28 AM, Susana Mendes Silva wrote:
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>>> I find this sentence quite intriguing. Why this images are art works for
>>> you? Because you find in them some aesthetical value? Because they mimic
>>> the "transgressive art that is part of a fairly standard Avant-garde
>>> position essentially epatez du bourgeois"? They seem to me like war
>>> trophies…
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