Recognizing slow violence demands images matching its delayed temporality

Evidence

Such a rethinking requires that we complicate conventional assumptions about violence as a highly visible act that is newsworthy because it is event focused, time bound, and body bound. We need to account for how the temporal dispersion of slow violence affects the way we perceive and respond to a variety of social afflictions—from domestic abuse to posttraumatic stress and, in particular, environmental calamities. A major challenge is representational: how to devise arresting stories, images, and symbols adequate to the pervasive but elusive violence of delayed effects. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 21

Categorization

• XREF: The representational challenge — devising stories/images for delayed harms — is exactly the writer-activist role the literature strand of eco-justice addresses. — connects to: Slow violence differs from structural violence in foregrounding time and change — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 39; Depicting ecological harm through silenced absence makes invisible slow violence sensually present — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 172; Film anchors in pastness while video inhabits a continuous present — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 201 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Depicting ecological harm through silenced absence makes invisible slow violence sensually present #exemplifies (0.85) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 172
• Slow violence differs from structural violence in foregrounding time and change #expands (0.80) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 39
• Film anchors in pastness while video inhabits a continuous present #expands (0.70) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 201