огорчения философией

[iampolsk]

Daily the television confronts us with scenes of human suffering. In the news, starving children stare vacantly through listless eyes, weeping storm victims survey the ruins of their lives, the casualties of the latest terrorist bombing regard us from their hospital beds. We are also confronted by documentary films with their images of victims of previous catastrophes, both natural and human. Regarding this collective output, one has to ask: At what point does this surfeit of imagery make a spectacle of human suffering? What, in fact, is the boundary between receiving information and engaging in voyeurism? The voyeurism that marks our media-intensive age corrupts the peculiar presence they offer us. It converts what we witness into a disposable spectacle.

Comments

[pretre-philippe.livejournal.com]

voyeurism - как это точнее перевести?
ПО смыслу вроде болезненное любопытство.
Впрочем, слово французское по структуре. Но оно там означает deviation sexuelle dans laquelle le plaisir est obtenu par la vision dérobée de scènes érotiques.

[autrement-que.livejournal.com]

вуаеризм, так и переводится. только не только от scènes érotiques, а от любого подглядывания.

автор дальше хорошо объясняет

[autrement-que.livejournal.com]

Rather than being something that is there through its return, the political becomes an object of consumption.

One way to express this transformation is in terms of pornography. Pornography objectifies its subject. Through the image it presents, it transforms the person into a consumable object. The voyeur consumes it and moves on to the next pornographic image. The pornography of violence has the same effect. Presence here is not a function of a return, but rather of a chain of substitutions, where one image, when consumed, gives way to the next.

When we treat images as consumer items, we become a voyeur. This holds no less for pornography than for the images of human suffering that we “consume” with the news. It also holds for the politics that transforms candidates and issues into consumable sound bites. In each case, the erasure of the boundary between being a witness and watching a spectacle signifies the loss of the excessive presence that is at the root of our ethical and political responsibility.

Re: автор дальше хорошо объясняет

[pretre-philippe.livejournal.com]

Да, спасибо! Психология ненасытного потребительства в самом деле хорошо обозначена.

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[koot.livejournal.com]

Действительно хорошо сказано. Кто же это?