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Figuring Violence - Affective Investments in Perpetual War (Paperback)
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Figuring Violence - Affective Investments in Perpetual War (Paperback)
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In the United States, the early years of the war on terror were
marked by the primacy of affects like fear and insecurity. These
aligned neatly with the state's drive toward intensive
securitization and an aggressive foreign policy. But for the
broader citizenry, such affects were tolerable at best and
unbearable at worst; they were not sustainable. Figuring Violence
catalogs the affects that define the latter stages of this war and
the imaginative work that underpins them. These
affects-apprehension, affection, admiration, gratitude, pity, and
righteous anger-are far more subtle and durable than their
predecessors, rendering them deeply compatible with the ambitions
of a state embroiling itself in a perpetual and unwinnable war.
Surveying the cultural landscape of this sprawling conflict,
Figuring Violence reveals the varied mechanisms by which these
affects have been militarized. Rebecca Adelman tracks their
convergences around six types of beings: civilian children,
military children, military spouses, veterans with PTSD and TBI,
Guantanamo detainees, and military dogs. All of these groups have
become preferred objects of sentiment in wartime public culture,
but they also have in common their status as political subjects who
are partially or fully unknowable. They become visible to outsiders
through a range of mediated and imaginative practices that are
ostensibly motivated by concern or compassion. However, these
practices actually function to reduce these beings to abstracted
figures, silencing their political subjectivities and obscuring
their suffering. As a result, they are erased and rendered
hypervisible at once. Figuring Violence demonstrates that this
dynamic ultimately propagates the very militarism that begets their
victimization.
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