Torture: a necessary staging in our postmodern times?. [Spanish]
Keywords:
Punishment, enemy, scene, representation, ceremony, public, art, internet,Abstract
This essay proposes a re?ection provoked by an artistic event: a series of paintings motivated by the photographs taken by North American soldiers of the prisoners abused in Abu Ghraib in 2004. The artistic even was presented by the Colombian painter Fernando Botero. This artistic event allows us to analyze a human need that seemed to be overcome in modernity: to make
punishment a public scene. The thesis presented by philosopher Michael Foucault in his book:
Discipline and Punish serves as a frame of reference. What at present we denominate the World Wide Web allows humanity to communicate in an accelerated manner and thus go
into the public arena in a matter of seconds in a way that is contrary to re?ection and rational thinking.
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