Hold everything dear :dispatches on survival and resistance
- 作者: Berger, John.
- 出版: New York : Vintage International 2008.
- 版本: 1st Vintage International ed.
- 稽核項: vi, 148 pages :illustrations ;21 cm.
- 標題: Causes. , Equality. , War Causes. , Security, International. , International economic relations. , War on Terrorism, 2001-2009. , War , Power (Social sciences)
- ISBN: 0307386732 , 9780307386731
- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-148). Twelve theses on the economy of the dead -- Wanting now -- Seven levels of despair -- Undefeated despair -- I would softly tell my love -- Where are we? -- War against terrorism or a terrorist war? -- Let us think about fear -- Stones -- The chorus in our heads or pier Paolo Pasolini -- A master of pitilessness? -- Ten dispatches about endurance in the face of walls -- Flesh and speeches -- About disconnecting -- Ten dispatches about place -- Another side of desire -- Looking carefully--two women photographers -- Notes.
- 摘要: From the War on Terror to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral and passionate, Hold Everything Dear is a profound meditation on the far extremes of human behaviour, and the underlying despair. Looking at Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq, he makes an impassioned attack on the poverty and loss of freedom at the heart of such unnecessary suffering. These essays offer reflections on the political at the core of artistic expression and even at the center of human existence itself.
- 系統號: 005278008
- 資料類型: 圖書
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From a Booker Prize-winning author and one of the most impassioned of writers of our time, this powerful collection of essays offers a stark portrait of post-9/11 realities. John Berger occupies a unique position in the international cultural landscape: artist, filmmaker, poet, philosopher, novelist, and essayist, he is also a deeply thoughtful political activist. In Hold Everything Dear, his artistry and activism meld in an attempt to make sense of the current state of our world. Berger analyzes the nature of terrorism and the profound despair that gives rise to it. He writes about the homelessness of millions who have been forced by poverty and war to live as refugees. He discusses Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Serbia, Bosnia, China, Indonesia-anyplace where people are deprived of the most basic of freedoms. Berger powerfully acknowledges the depth of suffering around the world and suggests actions that might finally help bring it to an end.
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