RSSTom McCarthy, “Abu Ghraib Images Revealed the Poetic Truth of the Neoliberal Project,” Comment is Free, The Guardian (website) Friday 9 September 2011
The contemporary relevance of the Marquis de Sade’s 120 days of Sodom in relation to US soldiers’ treatment of Iraqi prisoners
In this video interview, part of a series commemorating “10 years of terror”, Tom McCarthy talks about Bernard Noël’s Le Château de Cène (1969), which he describes as an “obscure pornographic allegory” of the war in Algeria. He goes on to say that “With the Abu Ghraib photos, you don’t need a Bernard Noël to do it. The soldiers themselves are enacting those scenes” that reveal “the poetic truth of the overall neoliberal military project”.