Elaine Scarry Quote

Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently produced on the way to producing something else but is the relentless object of all military activity.


The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (ed. Oxford University Press, 1985) - ISBN: 9780199741229


Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently...

Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently...

Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently...

Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently...