June 25, 2019
Interview with Elaine Scarry in Representations
By Rachel Ablow
THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES A CONVERSATION that began at the University at Buffalo in 2015 when Elaine Scarry participated in a conference on pain organized by Rachel Ablow and James Bono. At that conference, Professor Scarry delivered a paper on the political consequences of the difficulty of imagining the injuries inflicted by nuclear war. The interview was recorded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 27, 2018.