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Visualizing Atrocity - Arendt, Evil, and the Optics of Thoughtlessness (Hardcover, New)
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Visualizing Atrocity - Arendt, Evil, and the Optics of Thoughtlessness (Hardcover, New)
Series: Critical Cultural Communication
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Visualizing Atrocity takes Hannah Arendt's provocative and
polarizing account of the 1961 trial of Nazi official Adolf
Eichmann as its point of departure for reassessing some of the
serviceable myths that have come to shape and limit our
understanding both of the Nazi genocide and totalitarianism's
broader, constitutive, and recurrent features. These myths are
inextricably tied to and reinforced viscerally by the atrocity
imagery that emerged with the liberation of the concentration camps
at the war's end and played an especially important, evidentiary
role in the postwar trials of perpetrators. At the 1945 Nuremberg
Tribunal, particular practices of looking and seeing were first
established with respect to these images that were later reinforced
and institutionalized through Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem as
simply part of the fabric of historical fact. They have come to
constitute a certain visual rhetoric that now circumscribes the
moral and political fields and powerfully assists in contemporary
mythmaking about how we know genocide and what is permitted to
count as such. In contrast, Arendt's claims about the "banality of
evil" work to disrupt this visual rhetoric. More significantly
still, they direct our attention well beyond the figure of Eichmann
to a world organized now as then by practices and processes that
while designed to sustain and even enhance life work as well to
efface it.
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