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State of Disappearance / edited by Brad Evans and Chantal Meza.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Outspoken Series
- Outspoken Series ; Volume 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disappeared persons.
- Violence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- State of Disappearance brings together abstract artistic testimony and witnessing with critical voices to ask deeper questions about extreme violence, the normalization of human vanishing, state and ideological complicity, and memorialization, along with wider concerns about what it means to be human in the twenty-first century.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- The Writing Of Disappearance: Artist Statement
- The Aesthetics of Disappearance
- Postfigurative Im/memorial Art: For the Sake of Carrying Disappeared Worlds
- A Murder of Possibilities: The Altricidal State as a Robinsonade
- The Violence of Organized Forgetting
- Slavery, Death, and Disappearance
- Disappearances
- Art and the Disappeared: Beyond the Face
- Theatre of the Disappeared
- Vanishing Points
- Witness
- State, Disappearing
- The Disappearance of Emergencies
- Technologies of Disappearance
- D—nce
- The Disappearance of the Aesthetic
- Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-2280-1952-4
- OCLC:
- 1379789489
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