In the untitled piece from the Inflammatory Essays that begins “SHRIEK WHEN THE PAIN HITS…,”Jenny Holzer shows how Control can be physical but also emotional. The narrator of this piece is advising someone who is being held for interrogation and tortured. Using words such as “hits,” “cuts,” and “flesh,” he describes the interrogator as a tormentor who inflicts pain and cuts the interrogee’s flesh. Hitting and cutting are actions that are visible and are performed using tangible objects, and flesh is the physical component of human beings. Therefore, the words Holzer uses when describing the torment that the interrogee is suffering imply that the interrogator has physical control over the interrogee. However, the narrator advises the interrogee