Introduction: Witnesses to Witnessing
Introduction: Witnesses to Witnessing
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简介：见证人的见证
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2011
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通讯作者：
Cynthia E. Milton
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E. Lehrer;Cynthia E. Milton
当不可见变为可见，当知识被推到社会边缘或被扫到地毯下突然被插入公共领域时，会发生什么？德国平民被迫观看新解放的纳粹集中营，站在匆忙挖掘的满是瘦弱尸体的战壕边缘，这些标志性的画面象征着一个时代，在这个时代，我们不仅面临着以前难以想象的大规模暴力事件，而且对我们如何与这些过去接触感到震惊：谁应该看，看什么，怎么看，为了什么目的？有一种持久的感觉是，不情愿的公众必须被迫面对可怕的现实，我们可能在某种程度上是同谋——如果只是我们不想真正知道的话。
What happens when the invisible is made visible, when knowledge relegated to society’s margins or swept under its carpet is suddenly inserted into the public domain? The iconic images of German civilians forced to view the newly liberated Nazi camps, standing at the edges of hastily dug trenches full of emaciated bodies are emblematic of an era in which we have faced not only previously unimaginable episodes of mass violence, but have been consternated by how we might engage with these pasts: who should look, at what, how, and to what end? There is an enduring sense that reluctant publics must be forced to confront horrific realities with which we may be somehow complicit—if only in our desire not to really know.