Social Bonds and Catastrophic Acts
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Duke University Press
Published:17th Nov '23
Should be back in stock very soon
Topics covered include trauma, political violence, and the memorializations of trauma; how French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s concept of “passage à l’acte” can be used to analyze the dissolution of social bonds and the emergence of violence in contemporary societies; and the emergence of necropolitics, necrocapitalism, Afropessimism, and “Lacan noir” on the socio-politico-cultural scene.
Contributors
Gustavo Dessal, Stefan Ecks, Peter Goodrich, Marina Gržinić, Rosaura Martinez-Ruiz, Tracy McNulty, Elizabeth Stewart, Calvin Warren, Anthony Wexler
ISBN: 9781478024781
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
200 pages