Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Pollock, Griselda, editor, contributor.
Silverman, Maxim, editor, contributor.
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| ISBN: | 9780857739087
0857739085
9780857725448
0857725440
9781786724434
178672443X
1784530441
9781784530440
9781784534097
1784534099
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-281), filmography (page 283) , and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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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| Other form: | Print version: Concentrationary imaginaries. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2015 9781784534097
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