Archives of the Insensible: Of War, Photopolitics, and Dead Memory by Allen Feld

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Archives of the Insensible by Allen Feldman In this jarring look at contemporary warfare and political visuality, renowned anthropologist of violence Allen Feldman provocatively argues that contemporary sovereign power mobilizes asymmetric, clandestine, and ultimately unending war as a will to truth. Whether responding to the fantasy of weapons of mass destruction or an existential threat to civilization, Western political sovereignty seeks to align justice, humanitarian right, and democracy with technocratic violence and visual dominance. Connecting Guantánamo tribunals to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, American counterfeit killings in Afghanistan to the Baader-Meinhof paintings of Gerhard Richter, and the video erasure of Rodney King to lynching photography and political animality, among other scenes of terror, Feldman contests sovereigntys claims to transcendental right —whether humanitarian, neoliberal, or democratic—by showing how dogmatic truth is crafted and terror indemnified by the prosecutorial media and materiality of war. Excavating a scenography of trials—formal or covert, orchestrated or improvised, criminalizing or criminal—Feldman shows how the will to truth disappears into the very violence it interrogates. He maps the sensory inscriptions and erasures of war, highlighting war as a media that severs factuality from actuality to render violence just. He proposes that war promotes an anesthesiology that interdicts the witness of a sensory and affective commons that has the capacity to speak truth to war. Feldman uses layered deconstructive description to decelerate the ballistical tempo of war to salvage the embodied actualities and material histories that war reduces to the ashes of collateral damage, the automatism of drones, and the opacities of black sites. The result is a penetrating work that marries critical visual theory, political philosophy, anthropology, and media archeology into a trenchant dissection of emerging forms of sovereignty and state power that war now makes possible. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Allen Feldman is associate professor at the Department of Media Culture and Communication at New York University. He is the author of The Northern Fiddler and Formations of Violence, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Enigmatic Dispersals PART I: DESISTING SOVEREIGNTIES ONE / Before the Law at Guant Review "...a challenging but rewarding collection of essays by one of anthropologys leading voices on the politics of violence."--Joseph Feldman "PoLAR Online""I am struck by the rich and provocative detail of this remarkable book and by the disturbing insights it offers into the performance of violence in our time and how its representations make it banal and acceptable."-- "Social Text Journal" Review Quote "The indefatigable rigor with which Feldman limns the media, archives, practices, and metaphysics of contemporary sovereignty, along with its myriad forms of victimage, has the potential to educate and inspire a generation or more of counter-hegemonic, social-justice workers across multiple institutions, media, and national contexts. Feldman relentlessly pursues a mode of geopolitically emergent sovereignty that is fundamentally inseparable from war, terror, torture, clandestinity, and the programmed prohibition of the comprehension of these violent processes." Details ISBN022627733X Author Allen Feldman Short Title ARCHIVES OF THE INSENSIBLE Pages 432 Language English ISBN-10 022627733X ISBN-13 9780226277332 Media Book Format Paperback Imprint University of Chicago Press Subtitle Of War, Photopolitics, and Dead Memory Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States Year 2015 Illustrations Yes UK Release Date 2015-12-08 Publication Date 2015-12-08 AU Release Date 2015-12-08 NZ Release Date 2015-12-08 US Release Date 2015-12-08 Publisher The University of Chicago Press DEWEY 306 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENT Peace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:161783849;

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