{"title":"Brad Evans","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the thought-provoking works of Brad Evans, exploring themes of violence, power, and social justice. Perfect for readers interested in contemporary philosophy and critical social theory. Browse his insightful books now.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"portraits-of-violence-book-sean-michael-wilson-9781780263182","title":"Portraits of Violence","description":"Bringing together established academics and award-winning comic book writers and illustrators, Portraits of Violence illustrates the most compelling ideas and episodes in the critique of violence. Hannah Arendt, Franz Fanon, Brad Evans, Edward Said, Paolo Freire, Michel Foucault, Susan Sontag, Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, Giorgio Agamben each have ten pages to tell their story in this innovative graphic title.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49517015269649,"sku":"GOR008436053","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49688196284689,"sku":"CIN178026318XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49734886457617,"sku":"NGR9781780263182","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50880247365905,"sku":"GOR010944478","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51829304426769,"sku":"CIN178026318XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52550877806865,"sku":"CIN178026318XA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/178026318X.jpg?v=1751344417"},{"product_id":"liberal-terror-book-brad-evans-9780745665320","title":"Liberal Terror","description":"Security is meant to make the world safer. Yet despite living in the  most secure of  times, we see endangerment everywhere. Whether it is the  threat of another  devastating terrorist attacks, a natural disaster or  unexpected catastrophe,  anxieties and fears define the global  political age. While liberal governments  and security agencies have  responded by advocating a new catastrophic topography  of interconnected  planetary endangerment, our desire to securitize everything  has  rendered all things potentially terrifying. This is the fateful paradox  of  contemporary liberal rule. The more we seek to secure, the more our  imaginaries  of threat proliferate. Nothing can therefore be left to  chance. For everything  has the potential to be truly catastrophic. Such  is the emerging state of terror  normality we find ourselves in today.  This  illuminating book by Brad  Evans provides a critical evaluation of the  wide ranging terrors which are  deemed threatening to advanced liberal  societies. Moving beyond the assumption  that liberalism is integral to  the realisation of perpetual peace, human  progress, and political  emancipation on a planetary scale, it exposes how  liberal security  regimes are shaped by a complex life-centric rationality which  directly  undermines any claims to universal justice and co-habitation. Through   an incisive and philosophically enriched critique of the contemporary  liberal  practices of making life more secure, Evans forces us to  confront the question  of what it means to live politically as we  navigate through the dangerous  uncertainty of the 21st Century.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49525813674257,"sku":"GOR005828889","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51006597267729,"sku":"NIN9780745665320","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52089287573777,"sku":"NLS9780745665320","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0745665322.jpg?v=1750744480"},{"product_id":"disposable-futures-book-brad-evans-9780872866584","title":"Disposable Futures","description":"A dazzling exploration of the seduction of violence and spectacle in politics, culture, entertainment and everyday life","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49546861674769,"sku":"GOR011890893","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49968546709777,"sku":"GOR010091844","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50171506786577,"sku":"CIN0872866580VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50763369185553,"sku":"CIN0872866580G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52108912820497,"sku":"GOR007534462","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52343226761489,"sku":"NLS9780872866584","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52858345849105,"sku":"NIN9780872866584","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53112592793873,"sku":"CIN0872866580A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0872866580.jpg?v=1751440837"},{"product_id":"conversations-on-violence-book-brad-evans-9780745341682","title":"Conversations on Violence","description":"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? Violence: An Anthology 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 decolonization. Provocative, eye-opening and bracingly original, Violence: An Anthology sheds light on a defining philosophical concern of our age.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49563695350033,"sku":"GOR012042859","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49587025346833,"sku":"GOR011751059","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49740175638801,"sku":"NGR9780745341682","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0745341683.jpg?v=1751443546"},{"product_id":"return-to-the-land-of-the-head-hunters-book-brad-evans-9780295993447","title":"Return to the Land of the Head Hunters","description":"Photographer Edward Curtis’s 1914 orchestrally scored melodrama In the Land of the Head Hunters was one of the first US films to feature an Indigenous cast. This landmark of early silent cinema was an intercultural product of Curtis’s collaboration with the Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw of British Columbia—meant, like Curtis’s photographs, to document a supposedly vanishing race. But as this collection shows, the epic film is not simply an artifact of colonialist nostalgia.  In recognition of the film’s centennial, and the release of a restored version, Return to the Land of the Head Hunters brings together leading anthropologists, Native American authorities, artists, musicians, literary scholars, and film historians to reassess the film and its legacy. The volume offers unique Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw perspectives on the film, accounts of its production and subsequent circulation, and evaluations of its depictions of cultural practice. Resituated within film history and informed by a legacy of Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw participation and response, the movie offers dynamic evidence of ongoing cultural survival and transformation under shared conditions of modernity.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49728211091729,"sku":"NGR9780295993447","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0295993448.jpg?v=1767174954"},{"product_id":"how-black-was-my-valley-book-brad-evans-9781913462840","title":"How Black Was My Valley","description":"Providing a searing insight and honest portrayal of post-industrialcommunities ravaged by decades of abandonment, How Black Was MyValley is the story of lives defined by poverty, catastrophe and thefading dreams of better futures.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49748900544785,"sku":"NGR9781913462840","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50178216100113,"sku":"GOR013881863","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51052981190929,"sku":"NIN9781913462840","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51329359675665,"sku":"CIN1913462846G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52789359804689,"sku":"GOR014622503","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1913462846.jpg?v=1751456894"},{"product_id":"state-of-disappearance-book-brad-evans-9780228018964","title":"State of Disappearance","description":"Disappearance is marked by a devastating absence. It constitutes a form of violence that rips open a wound in time, offering no viable recovery and no meaningful justice. It provides alibis to perpetrators while denying victims their humanity. For those who are left to live with its presence, the terror is infinite.  State of Disappearance brings together the power of artistic testimony and witnessing with critical voices to ask deeper questions about extreme violence, the normalization of human vanishing, state and ideological complicity, and memorialization, along with wider concerns about what it means to be human in the twenty-first century. A gallery of dedicated artworks by Mexican abstract painter Chantal Meza inspires each chapter, bringing the aesthetic into critical conversation and leading to a multidisciplinary collection that charts a new path for recovering humanity in the face of its annihilation. Featuring contributions from theorists of violence who are concerned with the issue of forcibly removing humans from the surface of the earth, while also appreciative of the complex layers of appearance and disappearance in the contemporary world, the book attends to the many ways disappearance occurs and the ethical questions this raises.  State of Disappearance traverses the difficult terrain of human denial to rethink some of the most devastating chapters in human history and their enduring relevance to our lives.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49755071742225,"sku":"NGR9780228018964","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/022801896X.jpg?v=1763474746"},{"product_id":"violence-book-brad-evans-9780872867543","title":"Violence","description":"Interviews with leading thinkers on the crisis of violence in contemporary politics, history, media, and culture.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49781334868241,"sku":"CIN0872867544VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50409073901841,"sku":"GOR010748824","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52337434853649,"sku":"NLS9780872867543","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740445569297,"sku":"NIN9780872867543","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53576394572049,"sku":"GOR014967929","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0872867544.jpg?v=1750948149"},{"product_id":"atrocity-exhibition-book-brad-evans-9781940660462","title":"Atrocity Exhibition","description":"A collection of writings, reflections, and interviews from political philosopher and critical theorist Brad Evans, written between 2010 and 2017. Evans collaborates with and interviews Simon Critchley, Julian Reid, Adrian Parr, Henry Giroux, Grace Pollock, Tyler Pollard, and Victoria Harper in his considerations of our era of violence and confusion. Brad Evans has studied and written about the history of violence for years and has been collaborating with and interviewing the world’s greatest artists, humanists, and philosophers about the human propensity for violence.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50148573774097,"sku":"CIN1940660467G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51325178937617,"sku":"CIN1940660467VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1940660467.jpg?v=1750770106"},{"product_id":"histories-of-violence-book-brad-evans-9781783602384","title":"Histories of Violence","description":"An essential introduction to post-war critical thought on the problem of violence.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50289284710673,"sku":"CIN1783602384VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52108822905105,"sku":"GOR008081801","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1783602384.jpg?v=1750929462"},{"product_id":"ecce-humanitas-book-brad-evans-9780231184632","title":"Ecce Humanitas","description":"The very idea of humanity seems to be in crisis. Born in the ashes of devastation after the slaughter of millions, the liberal conception of humanity imagined a suffering victim in need of salvation. Today, this figure appears less and less capable of galvanizing the political imagination. But without it, how are we to respond to the inhumane violence that overwhelms our political and philosophical registers? How can we make sense of the violence that was carried out in the name of humanism? And how can we develop more ethical relations without becoming parasitic on the pain of others?  Through a critical exploration of violence and the sacred, Ecce Humanitas recasts the fall of liberal humanism. Brad Evans offers a rich analysis of the changing nature of sacrificial violence, from its theological origins to the exhaustion of the victim in the contemporary world. He critiques the aestheticization that turns victims into sacred objects, sacrificial figures that demand response, perpetuating a cycle of violence that is seen as natural and inevitable. In novel readings of classic and contemporary works, Evans traces the sacralization of violence as well as art’s potential to incite resistance. Countering the continued annihilation of life, Ecce Humanitas calls for liberating the political imagination from the scene of sacrifice. A new aesthetics provides a form of transgressive witnessing that challenges the ubiquity of violence and allows us to go beyond humanism to imagine a truly liberated humanity.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50417854775569,"sku":"GOR012763154","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50471188431121,"sku":"GOR013962948","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0231184638.jpg?v=1750908613"},{"product_id":"resilient-life-book-brad-evans-9780745671536","title":"Resilient Life","description":"What does it mean to live dangerously? This is not just a philosophical question or an ethical call to reflect upon our own individual recklessness. It is a deeply political issue, fundamental to the new doctrine of ‘resilience’ that is becoming a key term of art for governing planetary life in the 21st Century. No longer should we think in terms of evading the possibility of traumatic experiences. Catastrophic events, we are told, are not just inevitable but learning experiences from which we have to grow and prosper, collectively and individually. Vulnerability to threat, injury and loss has to be accepted as a reality of human existence.     In this original and compelling text, Brad Evans and Julian Reid explore the political and philosophical stakes of the resilience turn in security and governmental thinking. Resilience, they argue, is a neo-liberal deceit that works by disempowering endangered populations of autonomous agency. Its consequences represent a profound assault on the human subject whose meaning and sole purpose is reduced to survivability. Not only does this reveal the nihilistic qualities of a liberal project that is coming to terms with its political demise. All life now enters into lasting crises that are catastrophic unto the end.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51006511677713,"sku":"NIN9780745671536","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51283723059473,"sku":"GOR008207727","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51421495984401,"sku":"CIN0745671535VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52126401069329,"sku":"NLS9780745671536","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53012645511441,"sku":"GOR014695263","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0745671535.jpg?v=1751200111"},{"product_id":"conversations-on-violence-book-brad-evans-9780745341675","title":"Conversations on Violence","description":"'Brad Evans in one of the brightest critical minds of his generation' - Henry A. Giroux    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, Kehinde Andrews 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51167054594321,"sku":"NIN9780745341675","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52406326952209,"sku":"NLS9780745341675","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0745341675.jpg?v=1750913712"},{"product_id":"ephemeral-bibelots-book-brad-evans-9781421432694","title":"Ephemeral Bibelots","description":"Restoring proto-modernist little magazines—known as ephemeral bibelots—to the scholarly canon.  Emanating from the cabarets of modernist Paris, a short-lived vogue spread around the world for avant-garde journals known in English as \"ephemeral bibelots.\" For a time, it seemed that all the young bohemians passing through Paris started their own bibelots modeled on Le Chat Noir, the esoteric magazine of the famed Montmartre cabaret. These journals were recognizable for their decadence, campy queerness, astounding art nouveau illustrations, fin-de-siècle color schemes, innovative typefaces, and practiced bohemianism.   In Ephemeral Bibelots, Brad Evans relays the untold story of this late-nineteenth-century craze for bibelots, dusting off a trove of periodicals largely untouched by digitization. In excavating this forgotten archive, Evans calls into question the prehistory of modernist little magazines as well as the history of American art and literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Considering how artistic movements take shape, move, and disappear, the book is organized around three major themes—\"vogue,\" \"ephemera,\" and \"obscurity\"—with authors and artists to match. A full-color insert reveals a glorious array of bibelot covers.  This revisionary history of print culture incorporates discussions of pragmatist philosophy and relational aesthetics; women writers like Juliet Wilbor Tompkins and Carolyn Wells; the graphic artists Will Bradley, Louis Rhead, and John Sloan; the dancer Loie Fuller; and twentieth-century figures like H. L. Mencken, Amy Lowell, and Anita Loos. Bringing nineteenth-century American literature and culture into conversation with modern art movements from around the world, Ephemeral Bibelots provides new ways of thinking about the centrality of various media cultures to the attribution of aesthetic innovation and its staying power.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51329068335377,"sku":"CIN1421432692G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1421432692.jpg?v=1751240692"},{"product_id":"resilient-life-book-brad-evans-9780745671529","title":"Resilient Life","description":"What does it mean to live dangerously? This is not just a philosophical question or an ethical call to reflect upon our own individual recklessness. It is a deeply political issue, fundamental to the new doctrine of    resilience    that is becoming a key term of art for governing planetary life in the 21st Century.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52353252786449,"sku":"NLS9780745671529","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53035250549009,"sku":"NIN9780745671529","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780745671529.jpg?v=1758182756"},{"product_id":"deleuze-fascism-book-brad-evans-9780415589673","title":"Deleuze \u0026 Fascism","description":"This edited volume deploys Deleuzian thinking to re-theorize fascism as a mutable problem in changing orders of power relations dependent on hitherto misunderstood social and political conditions of formation. The book provides a theoretically distinct approach to the problem of fascism and its relations with liberalism and modernity in both historical and contemporary contexts. It serves as a seminal intervention into the debate over the causes and consequences of contemporary wars and global political conflicts as well as functioning as an accessible guide to the theoretical utilities of Deleuzian thought for International Relations (IR) in a manner that is very much lacking in current debates about IR.   Covering a wide array of topics, this volume will provide a set of original contributions focussed in particular upon the contemporary nature of war; the increased priorities afforded to the security imperative; the changing designs of bio-political regimes, fascist aesthetics; nihilistic tendencies and the modernist logic of finitude; the politics of suicide; the specific desires upon which fascism draws and, of course, the recurring pursuit of power.  An important contribution to the field, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, fascism and international relations theory.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52521987113233,"sku":"NLS9780415589673","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780415589673.jpg?v=1760574155"},{"product_id":"histories-of-violence-book-brad-evans-9781783602391","title":"Histories of Violence","description":"An essential introduction to post-war critical thought on the problem of violence.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52654670807313,"sku":"NLS9781783602391","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781783602391.jpg?v=1762216971"},{"product_id":"disappearance-book-brad-evans-chantal-meza-9781788219167","title":"Disappearance","description":"What was once a hidden secret defining totalitarian regimes has become the defining problem of our times. Every day we encounter stories concerning the disappearance of humans, communities, cultures, and life sustaining systems. Disappearance has also become a dominant theme in popular entertainment, as we have normalised the extreme. But how are we to make sense of this? This is not just about increased awareness. It now openly touches our most primal of fears - to vanish without a trace - which has been amplified in our visual landscapes that depend upon and yet weaponize the value we place on appearances.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Recognizing this state of affairs and the ways in which societies are precariously hovering over disappearance fault-lines, this book will map out in original ways the history of the phenomena to offer an urgent and timely intervention. Moving beyond old ideas concerning bodies, the authors demand new ways of seeing disappearance to inspire alternative ways of thinking and responses. Disappearance, they argue, is a form of neuroviolence that is inseparable from the invisible operations of power. Hence countering it, not only requires that we make visible those forces which continue to annihilate life, it is to look precisely at the way disappearance now structures our societies and is inseparable from any concern with power in the world.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53450403414289,"sku":"NGR9781788219167","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788219167.jpg?v=1776896625"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-brad-evans.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}