When fortress becomes museum becomes spectacle, what remains of the violence and imprisonment that created it?
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat
Tower of London – History as Tourist Experience
The Tower imprisoned and executed people. Now tourists buy admission to experience the buildings where suffering occurred. See Fiona MacLeod’s examination of how London packages violence as entertainment.
History becomes aesthetic when consequences are long past and no one is still dying from the previous regime’s violence.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/
