Show threadbs2Oct 28, 2024
> The image of punishment is often provided in the film itself, as its poetic justice. Such self-punishment is evil in itself; but worse is that usually it is projected far and wide as vindictive hatred of scapegoats. And alternatively, it seeks for allies in mass suicide, as if to say, “We are not worthy to live.”
#PaulGoodman on #PacifistFilms #AntiWarMedia #WorthyToLive #DeserveToDie ???
bs2Oct 28, 2024

Maps! Information Design. Reminds me of Paul Goodman's advice for Making #PacifistFilms
> Factual and analytic handling of images of war can neutralize their pornographic effect.^1

https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/a-cartography-of-genocide

/HT @olimould
via @rysiek

#PaulGoodman
^1 https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/paul-goodman/1961/designing-pacifist-films.html

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Show threadbs2Sep 12, 2022
> a serious modern artist who happens to be a pacifist.. begins to move artistically among the scenes of war, his art.. will soon lead to the exploration and expression of his own horror, rage, pain, and devastation. The vegetarian will disclose his own cannibalism, the pacifist his murderousness.. #Guernica does not light up the deed of #Nazi bombers, but the violent soul of #Picasso, brought to a salutary pause.
https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/paul-goodman/1961/designing-pacifist-films.html
#PaulGoodman on #PacifistFilms
Designing Pacifist Films, by Paul Goodman

bs2Apr 1, 2022
> a film must at least not do.. harm by predisposing its audience toward war.. images of senseless violence, horror, and wast.. employed in.. commercially successful #antiwar films.. have a titillating effect and remain in the soul as.. further incitements.. images of horror.. detach themselves from the.. intellectual and ethical framework in which they are.. presented.. they attach themselves to quite different #subliminal ideas
https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/paul-goodman/1961/designing-pacifist-films.html
#PacifistFilms #PaulGoodman
Designing Pacifist Films, by Paul Goodman

bs2Feb 26, 2022
Why some people in #Russia might be concerned about #Nato (Controlled by #Germany and #France more than #Greece I guess, not to mention the #USA ) expanding to their borders... It wasn't just the Nazis that invaded and killed millions before leaving in frozen defeat. #EdwardTufte in #BeautifulEvidence says #Minard made the best #antiwar #poster ever. #PaulGoodman in #PacifistFilms says plain documentaries are good, scenes of extreme bloody cruelty just make us think we all deserve to die...