Ebook: Violence: humans in dark times

Introduction : Humans in dark times -- Thinking against violence / Natasha Lennard & Brad Evans -- Theater of violence : Simon Critchley -- The perils of being a black philosopher : George Yancy -- The refugee crisis is humanity's crisis : Zygmunt Bauman -- Our crime against the planet and ourselves : Adrian Parr -- The violence of forgetting : Henry A. Giroux -- When law is not justice : Gayatri Chakravort Spivak -- What protest looks like : Nicholas Mirzoeff -- Who is "evil" and who is the victim? : Simona Forti -- Art in a time of atrocity : Bracha L. Ettinger -- Is humanism really humane? : Cary Wolfe -- The intellectual life of violence : Richard Bernstein -- The violence of love : Moira Weigel -- The director's eye : Oliver Stone -- Confronting the intolerable : Gottfried Helnwein -- Violence is our present condition : Alfredo Jaar -- Songs in the key of revolution : Neo Muyanga -- Literary violence : Tom McCarthy -- Landscapes of violence : John Akomfrah -- Violence to thought : David Theo Goldberg -- Operatic violence : Christopher Alden -- The violence of art : Jake Chapman -- Affect, power, violence : the political is not personal : Brian Massumi -- The intimate life of violence : Elaine Scarry -- Neuro-diversity and the policing of the norm : Erin Manning -- Living with disappearance : Allen Feldman -- Critique of violence : Michael J. Shapiro -- Violence in porn : it's not what you think! : Mickey Mod -- Against violence, queer failure : Jack Halberstam.;Through a series of penetrating conversations originally published in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard talk with a wide range of cutting edge thinkers--including Oliver Stone, Simon Critchley, and Elaine Scarry--to explore the problem of violence in everyday life, politics, culture, media, language, memory, and the environment. "To bring out the best of us," writes Evans, "we have to confront the worst of what humans are capable of doing to one another. In short, there is a need to confront the intolerable realities of violence in this world."