{"product_id":"violence-humans-in-dark-times-paperback","title":"Violence: Humans in Dark Times - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrad Evans\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNatasha Lennard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough a series of penetrating conversations originally published in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cb\u003eBrad Evans and Natasha Lennard\u003c\/b\u003e talk with a wide range of cutting edge thinkers--including \u003cb\u003eOliver Stone, Simon Critchley, and Elaine Scarry\u003c\/b\u003e--to explore the problem of violence in everyday life, politics, culture, media, language, memory, and the environment. \"To bring out the best of us,\" writes Evans, \"we have to confront the worst of what humans are capable of doing to one another. In short, there is a need to confront the intolerable realities of violence in this world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese lively, in-depth exchanges among historians, theorists, and artists offer a timely and bracing look at how the increasing expression and acceptance of violence--in all strata of society--has become a defining feature of our times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Many of us live today with a pervasive sense of unease, worried that our own safety is at risk, or that of our loved ones, or that of people whose bad circumstances appear to us through networked media. Violence feels ever-present. Natasha Lennard and Brad Evans help us to analyze those feelings, talking with a wide range of thinkers in order to gain insight into the worst of what humans do, and challenging us to imagine a world in which violence is no longer a given. Their book is full of surprising insights and intelligent compassion.\"--\u003cb\u003eSarah Leonard\u003c\/b\u003e, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Future We Want: Radical Ideas for the New Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eViolence\u003c\/i\u003e, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard have created, alongside their interview subjects, a kaleidoscopic exploration of the concept of violence, in terrains expected and not, in prose taut and unexpectedly gorgeous. Their philosophical rigor provides the reader with an intellectual arsenal against the violence of the current moment.\"--\u003cb\u003eMolly Crabapple\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eDrawing Blood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We would be wise to read this collection with a similar eye toward service, and in so doing, open ourselves up to the rare mercy of no longer having to stand on our own.\"--\u003cb\u003eAlana Massey\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAll The Lives I Want\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The range of interviews with leading academics, to filmmakers and artists, is impressive, at once immediate and relevant, but also profoundly philosophical. More essentially, though, the conversations underline the need and suggest ways to resist and organize in a visionary way, in the extraordinary times we live in.\"--\u003cb\u003eRazia Iqbal\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBBC News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Notable contemporary thinkers and creators give their individual perspectives in this compelling look at violence. . . . A provocative volume that challenges humanity to correct its runaway course toward an increasingly violent future by learning from its violent past.\"--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The purpose of the work is to challenge humanity to create more meaningful solutions when it comes to these kinds of violence--or at least to name violence without inadvertently inciting even more anger. . . . passion roars through every chapter . . . This book delivers on what it promises, which is an achievement. \"--Alison Gately, \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If you wish to read the intellectualization of violence, \u003ci\u003eViolence\u003c\/i\u003e is a phenomenal anthology. . . . Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard, the interviewers and the 'authors' of the anthology, have done a remarkable job in bringing together perceptive and intelligent contributors from various fields to scout the reaches of violence. Their piercing questions brought out brilliant responses from the interviewees.\"--L. Ali Khan, \u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eViolence: Humans in Dark Times\u003c\/em\u003e is an intriguing beginning to a much-needed sustained intellectual and aesthetic response to the horrors of modern times.\"--Zoe Vorsino\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNatasha Lennard\u003c\/strong\u003e is a journalist, essayist, and columnist. She is a contributing writer for The Intercept and her work has appeared regularly in \u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEsquire\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe New Inquiry, \u003c\/em\u003eamong others. She teaches critical journalism at the New School For Social Research in New York. Her second book, \u003cem\u003eBeing Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life, \u003c\/em\u003e will be published by Verso, May 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrad Evans\u003c\/strong\u003e is a political philosopher, critical theorist and writer, whose work specializes on the problem of violence. The author of some ten books and edited volumes, along with over fifty academic and media articles, he serves as Professor of Political Violence \u0026amp; Aesthetics at the University of Bath, UK. He is currently the lead editor for a dedicated section on violence and the arts\/critical theory with The Los Angeles Review of Books. He also continues to direct the online resources centre www.historiesofviolence.com\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBrad's books have been the recipient of prestigious international awards and translated in many languages, including Spanish, Turkish, Korean and German. Among his latest books include \u003cem\u003eViolence: Humans in Dark Times \u003c\/em\u003e(with Natasha Lennard, City Lights, 2018); \u003cem\u003eHistories of Violence: Post-War Critical\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eThought \u003c\/em\u003e(with Terrell Carver, Zed Books, 2017); \u003cem\u003ePortraits of Violence: An Illustrated History of Radical Thinking\u003c\/em\u003e\"(with Sean Michael Wilson, New Internationalist, 2016); \u003cem\u003eDisposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of the Spectacle\u003c\/em\u003e (with Henry Giroux, City Lights, 2015), \u003cem\u003eResilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously\u003c\/em\u003e (with Julian Reid, Polity Press, 2014), \u003cem\u003eLiberal Terror\u003c\/em\u003e (Polity Press, 2013), and\u003cem\u003e Deleuze \u0026amp; Fascism: Security - War - Aesthetics\u003c\/em\u003e (with Julian Reid, Routledge, 2013).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBrad is currently working on a number of book projects, including \u003cem\u003eThe Atrocity Exhibition: Life in an Age of Total Violence\u003c\/em\u003e (The Los Angeles Review of Books Press, 2019) and \u003cem\u003eEcce Humanitas: Beholding the Pain of Humanity\u003c\/em\u003e (Columbia University Press, 2020). He is also working on a project that explores the aesthetics of human disappearance, while writing in his spare time a work of fiction. Website: www.brad-evans.co.uk\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 6.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 04, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47355634712825,"sku":"9780872867543","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/u5l-rf9sD49780872867543.webp?v=1769854334","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/violence-humans-in-dark-times-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}