Atrocity Exhibition. Brad Evans

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      ATROCITY

      EXHIBITION

      Life in the Age of Total Violence

      Brad Evans

      LARB Provocations

      This is a LARB Provocations publication

      Published by The Los Angeles Review of Books

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      www.larbbooks.org

      Brad Evans would like to thank the journals the South Atlantic Quarterly, Theory & Event, Review of Education & Critical Pedagogy, along with World Financial Review and the Reading Lists for granting permission to reproduce the articles and discussions here. All rights reserved. Copyright was retained by author and printed accordingly for all additional articles and discussions featured.

      Preface © Russell Brand, 2018.

      Introduction © Henry A. Giroux, 2018.

      All rights reserved.

      Cover Artwork: Chantal Meza, Genesis (40x40, Oil on Wood), Museo de Guadalupe, Zacatecas Mexico 2017.

      ISBN 978-1-940660-46-2

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2018965696

      Contents

       Preface

      Russell Brand

       Introduction

      Henry A. Giroux

      Author’s Note: The Atrocity Exhibition

      Brad Evans

       Barbarians & Savages

      Brad Evans & Michael Hardt

       The Liberal War Thesis

      Brad Evans

       New Thinking is Needed About September 11

      Brad Evans & Simon Critchley

       9/11 — A Duty to Remember, but What?

      Brad Evans & Simon Critchley

       Militarization of London Olympics Shows One More Host Country’s Fetish for Displays of Force

      Brad Evans

       Public Intellectuals Resisting Global Violence

      Brad Evans & Grace Pollock

       London’s Violent Spectacle: What is to Be Gained by Calling it Terror?

      Brad Evans

       Branding the Revolution

      Brad Evans & Julian Reid

       The Promise of Violence in the Age of Catastrophe

      Brad Evans & Julian Reid

       As We Remember the Atrocities of the 20th Century, We Must Change the Way We Think About Violence

      Brad Evans

       Are Some Lives Disposable?

      Brad Evans & Adrian Parr

       Turning a Blind Eye to the Political Promise of the Financial Crisis

      Brad Evans & Adrian Parr

       Zygmunt Bauman’s Warning from History

      Brad Evans

       Education, the Politics of Resilience, and the War on Youth

      Brad Evans & Tyler Pollard

       Another War, Another Evil: Haven’t We Learned that the Devil Cannot Be Slain?

      Brad Evans

       Facing the Intolerable

      Brad Evans

       The Eyes of the World

      Brad Evans

       Challenging a “Disposable Future,” Looking to a Politics of Possibility

      Brad Evans, Henry A. Giroux & Victoria Harper

       Self-Plagiarism and the Politics of Character Assassination: The Case of Zygmunt Bauman

      Brad Evans & Henry A. Giroux

       How Do We Tell Our Children About the Violence in Paris?

      Brad Evans

       The War on Terror is a War on Youth: Paris & the Impoverishment of the Future

      Brad Evans & Henry A. Giroux

       Can we Leave the Atrocity Exhibition?

      Brad Evans

       Remembering the 43

      Brad Evans

       An Open Letter to Mara Fernanda Castilla

      Brad Evans

       Old Pains, New Demons: Critical Insights into Torture & Dignity

      Brad Evans & the Red Cross

       A World Without Books

      Brad Evans & Phil Treagus

       Recovering from an Addicted Life

      Brad Evans & Russell Brand

       Violence, Conflict & the Art of the Political

      Brad Evans

       Painting a State of Terror

      Brad Evans