Crary: "Insmonia corresponds to the necessity for vigilance [...] It is the disquiet of the effort to avoid inattention to the torment of the other"
However, the "ethic of watchfulness" has a "frustrating inefficacy": "the act of witnessing and its monotony can become a mere enduring of the night, of the disaster"
In this situation, "we face the near impossibility of living humanely" (19)