for duncan
posted by Assonance Not Apathy at 6:09 AM
Both politics and philosophy have taught us that not only are sticks and stones going to hurt like a bitch, but that a significant portion of what constitutes politics involves fighting words- political combat between the symbol using creatures called humans centers on identity, subjects and rhetoric. And so, the double move: this may be a place to both fight with words and to fight the words we employ to define the politics we all pretend to be familiar with.
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This is, of course, a much commented upon (and parodied) image. What is notable about this article is how Kim Phuc tries to appropriate the image as a picture of "peace." The question is, can we have a picture of peace that is not also (at least implicitly) a picture of war? Bob Hariman comments on this problem in a post at http://www.nocaptionneeded.com/?p=92
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