These are bodies. Bodies of Russian soldiers killed in Kharkiv. And not only killed, but vilified. The z that is composed is a revolting outrage.
There is something in what this photo documents that goes beyond evil: it is evil beyond evil, a ferocity without reason and without justification. It is the sliding into a barbaric life; violence is no longer part of the conflict and defense scheme, however bloody. It is a kind of cruel and humiliating tribalism, an end in itself, a form of cannibalism that devours dignity. Killing is killing. Offending a lifeless body is not the banality of evil, but the enormity of the moral emptiness.
