Death's Showcase : The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy

Acknowledgments x Introduction: on the Work of Death in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 2(8) [Death's] Display Showcase: Walter Benjamin 10(24) The [Aesthetic] Distance: Benjamin and Heidegger 34(14) The [Spectator's] Place: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun 48(28) The [Blind] Gesture: Hiroshima 76(14) [Critical] Image 90(28) The [Simulated] City: Jerusalem 118(12) The Floodlit Arena [of Murder]: Yitzhak Rabin 130(50) Save As JerusalemS 180(38) The Picture [of the Battlefield] 218(48) [Art] Museum 266(22) References 288(8) Index 296