I can’t watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.

B.H.

And so art is everywhere, since artifice is at the very heart of reality. And so art is dead, not only because its critical transcendence is gone, but because reality itself, entirely impregnated by an aesthetic which is inseparable from its own structure, has been confused with its own image.

Reality no longer has the time to take on the appearance of reality. It no longer even surpasses fiction: it captures every dream even before it takes on the appearance of a dream.

J.B.

Ludwig Favre, Paris, France.

All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can make an event.

J.B.

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

N.K.

Christoph Sokol, Austin, TX, USA.

This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.

J.B.

Media included:
13 Hours (2016)
1917 (2019)
A Hidden Life (2019)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
American Sniper (2014)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Band of Brothers (2001)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Casualties of War (1989)
Come and See (1985)
Coming Home (1978)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Dunkirk (2017)
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Fury (2014)
Green Zone (2010)
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
Jarhead (2005)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Land of Mine (2015)
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)
Lone Survivor (2013)
Man Down (2015)
Midway (2019)
Operation Finale (2018)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Patton (1970)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Platoon (1986)
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Schindler’s List (1993)
Stalingrad (1993)
Thank You For Your Service (2017)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959)
The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer (1961)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
The Pacific (2010)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
We Were Soldiers (2002)
Zero Dark Thirty (2013)

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