Jamal Awil

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Spatial distance can intensify violence’s vividness. [contrarian]

This new combination of physical distance and ocular proximity gives the lie to the classic law of distance: the great distance no longer renders the violence more abstract or more impersonal but, on the contrary, makes it more graphic, more personalized.

Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, loc. 401