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Concentrationary Imaginaries: Tracing Totalitarian Violence in Popular Culture

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Description for Concentrationary Imaginaries: Tracing Totalitarian Violence in Popular Culture Hardcover. Editor(s): Pollock, Griselda; Silverman, Max. Series: New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; JFFE. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase 'the concentrationary universe' to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the destruction of the human. This book shows how the unacknowledged legacy of a totalitarian mentality has seeped into the deepest recesses of everyday popular culture. It asks if the concentrationary now infests our cultural imaginary, normalizing what was once considered horrific and exceptional by transforming into entertainment violations of human life. Drawing on the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt and the analyses of violence by Agamben, Virilio, Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy, it ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784534097
SKU
V9781784534097
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About Griselda Pollock
Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds. Her publications include Visual Politics of Psychoanalysis: Art and the Image in Post-Traumatic Cultures (2013). Pollock is Series Editor of Bloomsbury's New Encounters Series. Max Silverman is Professor of Modern French ... Read more

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