An inquiry into masculinity, its myths, its armour, its seductions. i don't know how swans die moves across chapters, each approaching from a different angle the hardening of the male body into symbol, fantasy, and threat.

Ch_01: Wie man einen Panzer liebt examines the erotic charge of military imagery and what it means to desire an instrument of violence. Working across sculpture, photography, and video installation, the chapter draws on Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies and Hito Steyerl's writing on image and power to ask not why men make war, but what men feel when they look at it.