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Concentrationary Imaginaries - Tracing Totalitarian Violence in Popular Culture (Paperback)
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Concentrationary Imaginaries - Tracing Totalitarian Violence in Popular Culture (Paperback)
Series: New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts
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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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