How might Nelsons reference to disorientation be used to reverse the pathology of inaction she describes?

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For Maggie Nelson, the image does not always enable the viewer to realize the truth of a reality that has been veiled, but rather results in the begrudging (and for some, and enthusiastic) acceptance of the practice of the abuses of institutional power, as her example of torture and the programming of cultural sadism reveals. As a result, the spectator (reader) becomes desensitized to the overflow of acceptable violence (both physical and ideological), which induces passivity and the collective disengagement with social action until the moment of disorientation arrives. For Treuer, the legacies of colonial violence, cultural erasure, and environmental degradation are fortified by the manufactured indifference to the plight of the American Indian, resulting in deepening Thinking Questions:
– How do you understand Nelsons analysis of the image as a form of orchestrated violence? Where might Nelsons assessment overlap with Treuers emphasis on the convenient myth that underlies the history of ideological and physical subjugation of the American Indian?
– How does desensitization reduce the viewer to a passive spectator of organized violence in contemporary society? How does this process legitimate hierarchies of power (in terms of race, class, gender, etc.)?
– How might Nelsons reference to disorientation be used to reverse the pathology of inaction she describes? What relevance does it have to Treuers analysis of the struggle against the slow violence of environmental catastrophe at Standing Rock and the overall process of indigenous collectivity and cultural renewal?

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