In “Born of Trauma,” Thomas Lamarre writes:
“Ultimately, the repetition and escalation promise to inure us to mass destruction, producing a desire to get even closer to it and at the same time making anything less than mass destruction feel a relief, a ‘victory.’ Images of global annihilation imply a mixture of habituation, fascination, and addiction.” (131-132)
Does this still hold true for our imaginaries in 2021? Do you think the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has changed our relationship to the imagery of destruction?
