Brad Evans, Adrian Parr

Conversations on Violence

An Anthology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Leading thinkers discuss the experience and repercussions of violence, exploring its varied manifestations in the world today

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 136mm x 215mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 292g
• ISBN-13: 9780745341682
• ISBN-10: 0745341683
• Artikelnr.: 59541832

Autorenporträt

Brad Evans is a political philosopher, critical theorist, and writer specialising in the problem of violence. He is Professor of Political Violence & Aesthetics at the University of Bath and the lead editor for the Histories of Violence section with the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Brad Evans & Adrian Parr
1. The Poetry of Resistance - Malcolm London
2. Breaking the World - Marina Abramovic
3. Trans-species Encounters - David Rothenberg
4. Recovering from an Addicted Life - Russell Brand
5. Non-Violence & the Ghost of Fascism - Todd May (Clemson University)
6. Without Exception: On the Ordinariness of Violence - Lauren Berlant
(University of Chicago)
7. The Anatomy of Destruction - Gil Anidjar (Columbia University)
8. The Intimate Witness: Art and the Disappeared of History - Chantal Meza
9. The Death of Humanitarianism - Mark Duffield (Global Insecurities
Centre)
10. The Expulsion of Humanity - Saskia Sassen (Columbia University)
11. When Art is Born of Resistance - Martha Rosler
12. The Tragedy of Existence - Simon Critchley (New School for Social
Research)
13. The Violence of the Algorithm - Davide Panagia (University of
California)
14. Thinking Art in a Decolonial Way - Lewis Gordon
15. What does an Anti-Fascist Life Feel Like? - Natasha Lennard (New School
for Social Research)
16. Life in Zones of Abandonment - Henry A. Giroux
17. The Violence of Absent Emergencies - Santiago Zabala
18. The Ghosts of Civilised Violence - Alex Taek-Gwang Lee (Kyung Hee
University, Seoul)
19. Violence is Freedom - Roy Scranton (University of Notre-Dame)
20. Slavery in America - Ana-Lucia Araujo (Howard University)
21. Why We Should All Read Walter Benjamin Today - James Martel (San
Francisco State University)
22. Unlearning History - Ariella Aisha Azoulay (Brown University)
23. When Death Travels - Gareth Owen
24. The Poverty of Violence - Ananya Roy (UCLA)
25. The Violence of Denial - Linda Melvern
26. Why We Should All Read Malcolm X Today - Kehinde Andrews (Birmingham
City University)
27. America is Not a Fascist State. It's an Authoritarian one - Ruth
Ben-Ghiat (New York University)
28. The Atmosphere of Violence - Fatima Bhutto
29. The Inherited Memory of Art - Mark Bradford
30. Look Closer, Then You Will See - Isaac Cordal
31. The Revolutionary Potential of Pacificism - Richard Jackson (University
of Otago, NZ)
Index