Disposable life
Histories of Violence launches its tremendously important (and equally ambitious) Disposable Life project, which Brad Evans explains like this: “Mass violence is poorly understood if it simply refers...
View ArticleZizek on Disposable Life
I discussed the History of Violence project’s Disposable Life series when it was first announced here. Introducing the series, the Project’s Director Brad Evans explains: “Mass violence is poorly...
View ArticleDisposable futures
News from Brad Evans of a new book co-authored with Henry Giroux, Disposable futures: the seductions of violence in the age of spectacle (out next month from City Lights). Disposable Futures makes the...
View ArticleViolence and imagination
While I was working on ‘Gabriel’s Map’ (DOWNLOADS tab) Trevor Barnes introduced me to Tom McCarthy‘s mesmerising novel C which, among many other things, contains some extraordinary passages describing...
View ArticleThe Violence of Populism and Precarity
The LA Review of Books has an interesting interview (conducted by Brad Evans) with Mark Duffield here. I’m not sure the posted title (‘The Death of Humanitarianism’) captures the range and force of...
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