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Lego wardrobes
I was going to say “pants,” but your catch is much better.
More seriously, I thought it was fascinating that in the concentration camp image, the inmates are all skeletal Lego figures, while the guards are painted completely black. While the choice of minifigs is clearly meant to be associated with the emaciated images of concentration-camp inmates, I found the depiction of the guards as faceless black nothings to be somewhat dehumanizing. To me, this seemed related to your use of the Agamben quote; to take away the humanity of the guards who perpetrated the atrocities in the camps is to “obscure the mechanisms” of the holocaust, albeit in a different way.
Great post.