Forgetting Lot's WifeCan looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? Forgetting Lots Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century. Its subject is the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the spectator. The fragments of this history all lead back to the story of Lots wife: looking back at the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, she turns into a pillar of salt. This biblical