Atrocity Exhibition: Life in the Age of Total Violence - Brad Evans

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Résumé :
Writings from the foremost chronicler of violence in our times, a fundamental issue for the future of the human race, looked at from every angle.

Biographie:
Brad Evans is a political philosopher, critical theorist, and writer, who specializes in the problem of violence. The author of some 10 books and edited volumes, along with over 50 academic and media articles, he serves as Professor of Political Violence & Aesthetics at the University of Bath, UK. Having led a dedicated series on violence for The New York Times (the Stone), he is currently the lead editor for the Histories of Violence section with the Los Angeles Review of Books. He also continues to direct the online resources centre www.historiesofviolence.com. Brad's books have received prestigious international awards and have been translated into many languages, including Spanish, Turkish, Korean and German. Among his latest are Violence: Humans in Dark Times (with Natasha Lennard, Citylights, 2018); Histories of Violence: Post-War Critical Thought (with Terrell Carver, Zed Books, 2017); Portraits of Violence: An Illustrated History of Radical Thinking (with Sean Michael Wilson, New Internationalist, 2016); Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of the Spectacle (with Henry Giroux, City Lights: 2015); Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously (with Julian Reid, Polity Press, 2014); Liberal Terror (Polity Press, 2013); and Deleuze & Fascism: Security - War - Aesthetics (with Julian Reid, Routledge, 2013). Brad is currently working on a number of book projects, including The Atrocity Exhibition: Life in an Age of Total Violence (LARB Books, 2019) and Ecce Humanitas: Beholding the Pain of Humanity (Columbia University Press, 2020). He is also working on a project that explores the aesthetics of human disappearance, while writing, in his spare time, a work of fiction. Website: www.brad-evans.co.uk

Sommaire:
1. New thinking is needed about September 11
By Brad Evans & Simon Critchley

2. 9/11 - A Duty to Remember, but What?
By Brad Evans & Simon Critchley

3. Militarization of London Olympics Shows One More Host Country's Fetish for Displays of Force

4. London's Violent Spectacle: What is to be gained by calling it Terror?

5. Branding the Revolution
By Brad Evans & Julian Reid

6. The Promise of Violence in the Age of Catastrophe
By Brad Evans & Julian Reid

7. As we remember the atrocities of the 20th century, we must change the way we think about violence

8. Are some lives disposable?
By Brad Evans & Adrian Parr

9. Turning a Blind Eye to the Political Promise of the Financial Crisis
By Brad Evans & Adrian Parr

10. Zygmunt Bauman's Warning From History

11. Disposable Futures
By Brad Evans & Henry A. Giroux

12. Another War, Another Evil: Haven't We Learned That the Devil Cannot Be Slain?

13. The Eyes of the World

14. Self-Plagiarism and the Politics of Character Assassination: The Case of Zygmunt Bauman
By Brad Evans & Henry Giroux

15. How Do We Tell Our Children About the Violence in Paris?

16. The War on Terror is a War on Youth: Paris & the Impoverishment of the Future
By Brad Evans & Henry Giroux

17. Can we leave the Atrocity Exhibition?

18. Why we should all read Alice in Wonderland Right now

19. Remembering the 43

20. An Open Letter to Mara Fernanda Castilla

18. Public Intellectuals Resisting Global Violence: An Interview With Brad Evans
By Brad Evans & Grace Pollock

19. Challenging a Disposable Future, Looking to a Politics of Possibility
By Brad Evans, Henry Giroux & Victoria Harper

20. Education, the Politics of Resilience, and the War on Youth: A Conversation with Brad Evans
By Brad Evans & Tyler Pollard