pTwenty-five years after her classic iOn Photographyi, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today. pHow does the spectacle of the sufferings of others via television or newsprint affect us Are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the depiction of cruelty iIn Regarding the Pain of Othersi, Susan Sontag takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and the Nazi death camps, to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Israel and Palestine, and New York City on September 11, 2001. pIn iRegarding the Pain of Othersi Susan Sontag once again changes the way we think about the uses and meanings of images in our world, and offers an important reflection about how war itself is waged and understood in our time.p