War Primer by Bertolt Brecht
A searing, fragmentary collection of short epigrams paired with press photographs that exposes how modern warfare is organized, represented and defended: through euphemism, statistics, spectacle and the interests of capital. With sharp irony and aphoristic brevity the pieces dismantle official language and image-making—showing how bombs, bureaucracy and profiteering are naturalized, how victims become data, and how technological ‘progress’ masks brutality—urging readers to see through propaganda and to recognize the social and economic structures that sustain violence.
- Published
- 1955
- Nationality
- German
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- Unknown
- Pages
- Unknown
- Original Language
- German
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- Alternate Titles
- - Kriegsfibel
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