Ernst Friedrich, Krieg dem Kriege (Anti-Kriegs Museum, Berlin, 1924), 23.
Terrence Malick’s film A Hidden Life (2019) explores a similar case in the context of the Second World War. Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer and devout Catholic, refused to fight for the Nazis. He was declared mentally ill, jailed, and then sentenced to death.
Hito Steyerl, “Mean Images,” New Left Review, no. 140 (2023).
Friedrich, Krieg dem Kriege, 22.
Lois Rosson, “What is AI Doing to Art?” Noema, April 11, 2023 →.
Cited in Blaise Agüera y Arcas, “Art in the Age of Machine Intelligence,” in Atlas of Anomalous AI, ed. Ben Vickers and K Allado-McDowell (Ignota Books, 2020), 113.
Steyerl, “Mean Images.”
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, ed. Roger Crisp (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
“The Labour of Witnessing,” posted November 6, 2022, by Theater of Hopes and Expectations, YouTube →.
Judith Shulevitz, “Where Han Kang’s Nightmares Come From,” The Atlantic, January 14, 2025; Victoria Kim, “A Nobel Laureate Who Mines Her Country’s Nightmares, and Her Own,” New York Times, January 21, 2025.
Tomasz Szerszeń, Być Gościem w Katastrofie (Wydawnictwo Czarne and Dwutygodnik, 2024), 137. All quotes from this remarkable book, To be a Guest in the Catastrophe, by a Polish visual anthropologist and photographer about watching the war in Ukraine (2014–ongoing), are in my translation.
Szerszeń, Być Gościem w Katastrofie, 143.
“New Histories: Alexey Yurenev,” posted March 21, 2024, by Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, YouTube →.
This argument is paraphrased from Szerszeń, Być Gościem w Katastrofie.
Anna-Lena Werner, “Interview: Mykola Ridnyi,” Art Fridge, November 8, 2022.
Barbara Ehrenreich, foreword to Klaus Theweleit, Male Fantasies: Women, Floods, Bodies, History (University of Minnesota Press, 1987), xi–xii.
Paul Virilio, War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception (Verso, 2009), 10.
Nicola Abé, “Dreams in Infrared: The Woes of an American Drone Operator,” Der Spiegel, December 14, 2012.
Sandra Biberstein, “To Watch the War: An Interview with Olexii Kuchanskyi and Oleksiy Radynski,” Crisis and Communitas, October 24, 2022.
