Kill Boxes: Facing the Legacy of US-Sponsored Torture, Indefinite Detention, and Drone Warfare / Elisabeth Weber.

Kill Boxes addresses the legacy of US-sponsored torture, indefinite detention, and drone warfare by deciphering the shocks of recognition that humanistic and artistic responses to violence bring to consciousness if readers and viewers have eyes to face them.Beginning with an analysis of the ways in...

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Place / Publishing House:Baltimore, Maryland : : Project Muse,, 2020
©2020
Year of Publication:2017
2020
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (267 pages) :; illustrations; PDF, digital file(s).
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : shocks of recognition
  • Torture was the essence of National-Socialism : reading Jean Amery Today
  • Living-with-torture-together
  • Literary Justice? Poems from Guantánamo Bay Prison Camp
  • Guantánamo poems
  • Ages of cruelty : Jacques Derrida, Fethi Benslama, and their challenges to psychoanalysis
  • Kill boxes : Kafka's beetles, drones
  • Afterword / by Richard Falk.