Imagining violence

1Violence draws the eye in. Violent images abound: exerting a hold, holding the eye. They compel. To be held by violence, held by a proliferation of violent images to which the eye continues to turn by turning and returning within the impossibility of turning away, is to be fascinated. Indeed, the founding truth of the violent image is located in its capacity to exert a hold in this way, becoming therefore an instance of what will be described as the image-that-fascinates. (This conception o...