ATROCITY
EXHIBITION
Life in the Age of Total Violence
Brad Evans
LARB Provocations
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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.
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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
Russell Brand
Henry A. Giroux
Author’s Note: The Atrocity Exhibition
Brad Evans
Brad Evans & Michael Hardt
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
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
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
Brad Evans
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
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
Brad Evans & Phil Treagus
Recovering from an Addicted Life
Brad Evans & Russell Brand
Violence, Conflict & the Art of the Political
Brad Evans
Brad Evans