“The construction of national identity via simulation has the effect of pacification and deterrence. These simulated events are seductive and orgasmic – they play on tropes of sexual desire for violence and domination.”
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“With such a confrontational injunction, the audience understands themselves to be victims by way of mediated witnessing, by way of the composer’s and performers’ hands at being forced to watch the events unfold, and by way of the people who have perpetuated such violence.”
