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Tim Schütz: The Toxic Garment Factory: Environmental and Social Impacts of The Rana Plaza building collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh

The collage of photo and cartoon brought to my attention the question of labeling parts on an image. In the right-hand cartoon, parts of the city are clearly labeled, e.g. the school. In the left-hand photograph, viewers are left with figuring out details of the image. Even though the cartoon is exaggerated, the collage produces an interesting comparison. One is called to imagine the social structures covered in the debris of the collapsed Rana Plaza Building.

Melissa Begey: THE TOXIC GARMENT FACTORY

This montage of a caricature with 'real' footage reminds me of Benjamin's concept of the phantasmagoria. The caricature speaks to the dream space of "unlimited" capitalism that promises to provide goods and wealth to each and everyone.