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The relations of war and the image have never been simple. Seeing
one of the first cameraman to reach the front in 1916, General Pétain
exclaimed: « We’re not fooling around here, we’re at war! » the overdose
of Vietnam took the military by surprise, during the Gulf War we saw
They’d learned their lesson. Is it the abstraction, the transparency of
push-button battle that spontaneously elicited the war theme in many
of my Xplugs? It only matters to the extent that it’s always interesting
to verify, even on a tiny scale, the power of images to conjure away
misfortune.