{"id":282013,"date":"2024-12-09T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=282013"},"modified":"2024-12-07T04:58:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T04:58:44","slug":"lena-herzog-you-cannot-win-a-nuclear-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/12\/lena-herzog-you-cannot-win-a-nuclear-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Lena Herzog: You Cannot Win a Nuclear War"},"content":{"rendered":"

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6 Dec 2024 <\/em>– Though one can debate the reasons, statistics and precedent of nuclear war, what is often left out of the conversation is the reality of it: destruction of the world as a whole. In her new immersive art experience titled, \u201cAny War, Any Enemy<\/a>,\u201d immersive artist Lena Herzog throws this reality literally right in the faces of viewers. The film can uniquely be experienced via virtual reality as well as a traditional screen and it plainly shows what nuclear war looks like.<\/p>\n

Herzog begins the film with a quote stating nuclear war is not war. She tells host Robert Scheer on this episode of Scheer Intelligence that she begins with this because \u201cthe word \u2018war\u2019 is disorienting, because in war, you can have a battle, you can lose a battle, you can win a war. You cannot win a nuclear exchange. It\u2019s omnicide. It\u2019s not war.\u201d<\/p>\n

Part of a trilogy which tries to invoke art in a novel form, the film follows \u201cLast Whispers<\/a>,\u201d another piece of immersive art that focuses on the destruction of language. For \u201cAny War, Any Enemy,\u201d Herzog wants people to \u201cexperience [nuclear war] inside the frame, to feel it in the fiber of your being.\u201d<\/p>\n