He also touched on violence in the Chechen capital of Grozny on Thursday morning, where gunmen and police officers have clashed, leaving at least 16 dead.
Stylus contributor Derek Miller saw the album in similar terms, saying that while the album touches on "violence, paranoia, the falsity of simple labor, the war-call of organized religion a what's what of indie turmoil after 2003" the band go further to the point where its "thematic threads bind the songs".
'Well, the bomb pictures touch on real violence.
Some touch on political violence, others on sordid or thwarted encounters.
In the large-scale photomontages here, though, he stretches into a broader, looser, less documentarian mode in images that touch on political violence and conservative thinking, without abandoning the wit and sexiness of his earlier work.
King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia released a statement Friday that touched on the violence in Gaza.
Constructed through a series of vignettes, the book touches on extreme violence around the world -- inflicted on man, beast and the natural environment.
Spit over the beat for "N*ggas in Paris" from Kanye West and Jay-Z's Watch the Throne album, Bey's message touches on the violence (structural and otherwise) that comprises many people's everyday while he, arguably, manages to reflect the people better than Jay and 'Ye did on the original.
Last week the rapper-actor was invited by The Oxford Union, The Debate Society of Oxford University, to speak to students in a wide-ranging discussion that touched on music, violence in the black community, and the countless instances of police brutality that have made headlines worldwide.
You know, art imitating life...) TV currently hosts shows such as Scandal and Revenge, starring kick-ass women using violence to get what they want, but Hornaday's critique doesn't touch on this gendered violence either, instead she relies on a wobbly, vague argument which amounts to nothing while implicating and demonizing an artistic medium in the process.
