70 years ago: atomic bombing of Hiroshima
☛ LIFE magazine: from the article “When Atom Bomb Struck–Uncensored”, Sept. 29, 1952, p. 19. “Ten minutes after the blast Yoshito Matsushige snapped Hiroshima’s “Walking Dead,” later washed this developed film in a creek near city”. Yoshito Matsushige was a 32 year old cameraman for the Chugoku Newspaper at that time. He was at his […]
“Commandments in the Atomic Age” by Günther Anders, 1957
Your second thought after awakening should run: ‘The possibility of the Apocalypse is our work. But we know not what we are doing’. We really don’t know, nor do they who control the Apocalypse: for they too are ‘we’, they too are fundamentally incompetent. That they too are incompetent, is certainly not their fault; rather […]
Responsibility, power and fault
☛ Amazing Fantasy #15 by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee, August 1962 (image source) © Thinking about the concept of responsibility lately (I wrote about it here), I found myself wondering why it seems nowadays to be so intimately related to the concept of fault (and guilt). In a very broad legal understanding of it, […]
