Conversations on Violence: An Anthology

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Whether physical or metaphorical, institutional or interpersonal, violence is everywhere. A seemingly immutable fact of life, it is nonetheless rarely engaged with at the conceptual level. What does violence actually mean? And is it an inevitable part of the human condition? Conversations on Violence brings together many of the world's leading critical scholars, artists, writers and cultural producers to provide a kaleidoscopic exploration of the concept of violence. Through in-depth interviews with thirty figures including Marina Abramovic, Russell Brand and Simon Critchley, Brad Evans and Adrian Parr interrogate violence in all its manifestations, including its role in politics, art, gender discrimination and decolonisation. Provocative, eye-opening and bracingly original, Conversations on Violence sheds light on a defining political and ethical concern of our age. Cover Contents Introduction - Brad Evans and 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 and the Ghost of Fascism - Todd May 6. Without Exception: On the Ordinariness of Violence - Lauren Berlant 7. The Anatomy of Destruction - Gil Anidjar 8. The Intimate Witness: Art and the Disappeared of History - Chantal Meza 9. The Death of Humanitarianism - Mark Duffield 10. The Expulsion of Humanity - Saskia Sassen 11. When Art is Born of Resistance - Martha Rosler 12. The Tragedy of Existence - Simon Critchley 13. The Violence of the Algorithm - Davide Panagia 14. Thinking Art in a Decolonial Way - Lewis Gordon 15. What Does an Anti-Fascist Life Feel Like? - Natasha Lennard 16. Life in Zones of Abandonment - Henry A. Giroux 17. The Violence of Absent Emergencies - Santiago Zabala 18. The Ghosts of Civilized Violence - Alex Taek-Gwang Lee 19. Violence Is Freedom - Roy Scranton 20. Slavery in America - Ana Lucia Araujo 21. Why We Should All Read Walter Benjamin Today - James Martel 22. Unlearning History - Ariella Aisha Azoulay 23. The Crisis of Containment - Gareth Owen 24. The Violence of Poverty - Ananya Roy 25. The Violence of Denial - Linda Melvern 26. Why We Should All Read Malcolm X Today - Kehinde Andrews 27. America is Not a Fascist State. It’s an Authoritarian One - Ruth Ben-Ghiat 28. The Atmosphere of Violence - Fatima Butto 29. The Inherited Memory of Art - Mark Bradford 30. If You Look Closer, You Will See - Isaac Cordal 31. The Revolutionary Potential of Pacifism - Richard Jackson Index