In this original and controversial book, historian and philosopher
Reviel Netz explores the development of a controlling and
pain-inducing technology--barbed wire. Surveying its development
from 1874 to 1954, Netz describes its use to control cattle during
the colonization of the American West and to control people in Nazi
concentration camps and the Russian Gulag. Physical control over
space was no longer symbolic after 1874.
This is a history told from the perspective of its victims. With
vivid examples of the interconnectedness of humans, animals, and
the environment, this dramatic account of barbed wire presents
modern history through the lens of motion being prevented. Drawing
together the history of humans and animals, Netz delivers a
compelling new perspective on the issues of colonialism,
capitalism, warfare, globalization, violence, and suffering.
Theoretically sophisticated but written with a broad readership in
mind, Barbed Wire calls for nothing less than a reconsideration of
modernity.
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