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Concentrationary Imaginaries: Tracing Totalitarian Violence in Popular Culture

By Griselda Pollock , Max Silverman

Book information

Publisher
I.B.Tauris
Year
2015
ISBN
1784534099, 9781784534097
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5040205 bytes)
Series
New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts
Pages
288\322
Time added
2017-05-15 11:53:25
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Description

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 also offers close readings of films by Cavani and Haneke that identify and critically expose such an imaginary and, hence, contest its lingering force.

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