Oguibe's art spoke to me of recollections of modern human savagery--an inhumanity that particularly resonated in Seed: 7,000 Rounds, with its amunition shells laid out for inspection on the same crime-scene yellow tape that coursed through Hazlewood's wall compositions; and Sarcophagus of a Boy With a Gunshot Wound, an austere yet moving tribute to Trayvon Martin.
The first principle of Berlin's political ethics was an opposition to such subordination, which Berlin viewed as the essence of fanaticism, and a recipe for inhumanity that was as futile as it was horrible.
The image of Gilligan achieves its power from the fact that it does not show the human form laid bare and reduced to raw matter but creates instead an original image of inhumanity that admits no immediately self-evident reading.
The story says a lot about the inhumanity that was once rife in the British education system; but it also shines light on what it's like spending a lot of your life being not just misunderstood, but routinely insulted.
Reading about State of Emergency reminded me of the riots in Los Angeles 10 years ago, an explosion of violence and inhumanity that did not strike me at the time as the raw material for fun and games.
The "Trafficking in Persons Report", dated June 2013, provides 415 pages of stories, analysis and photographs, showing a kind of human suffering and inhumanity that is hard, perhaps, to grasp as coexisting alongside the tweeting, iPad-tapping, well-fed comfort of much of the developed world, but is a reality for millions of poor people, the report made clear.
"Row upon row of gaunt faces, serried ranks of grimy, raged figures; the delicate, hunger-ravaged features of children waiting in line for an UNRWA food parcel; the face of a mother creased in grief for a deceased child; tears of joy as a father is reunited with a long-lost daughter; these are the vignettes of inhumanity that have become the regular fare of nightly news bulletins.
And it is a racing certainty that they will not appoint as chief inspector another person, let alone a general so outspoken in the face of the waste, pointlessness and inhumanity that seem to come with the job.
It highlights the inhumanity that is propagated by these draconian laws.
"To coexist we must abolish the absolute evil and ultimate inhumanity that are nuclear weapons.
