In the Absence of Bombs: Art, War, and Silence - Pascal Gielen, Bahia Shehab (eds)
What happens when violence unfolds before our eyes, yet responses hesitate and waver? When institutions—political, academic, cultural—retreat into silence, and even committed artists falter in the face of war?
In the Absence of Bombs investigates this silence. In a time when horror is livestreamed and apathy is institutionalized, this book asks how such paralysis is possible—and how art can contribute to recognition of the unfolding crimes against humanity? How do poets, visual artists, theatre and filmmakers unsettle the spectacle of shock? How can grief become a collective and political force, rather than a privatized void?
Through testimonies from war zones—from Gaza to Kharkiv, Beirut to Brussels—this book composes a polyphonic response to a world that demands clarity but offers none. It does not moralize. It insists. On mourning. On commitment.
Paperback
20.8 x 13.5cm
320 pages
9789493246591
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