1.Introduction 2.The Shape of the Show 3.From Consequentialism to the Theatre of Bare Life 4.Kosovo: Simultaneous Truths and the Stages of War 5.Darfur and the Unhappy Performative 6.The Asian Tsunami: Photogenic Aid and the Pressure to Be There 153 7.Afterword: ‘Haiti’ 8.Works Cited 9.Index