ABSTRACT
Ryan noticed how newspapers and television were developing a familiar and comforting vocabulary to deal with violence. Sentences which could be read easily off the page. It involved repetition of key phrases. Atrocity reports began to achieve the pure level of a chant. It was no longer about conveying information. It was about focusing the mind inwards, attending to the durable rhythms of violence. …The violence had started to produce its own official literature. Mainly hardbacks, with the emphasis on the visual… image[s] which prompted a terrible carnality.
