Social Bonds and Catastrophic Acts

Topics covered include trauma, political violence, and the memorializations of trauma; how French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s concept of “passage à l’acte” can be used to analyze the dissolution of social bonds and the emergence of violence in contemporary societies; and the emergence of necropolitics, necrocapitalism, Afropessimism, and “Lacan noir” on the socio-politico-cultural scene.

Contributors
Gustavo Dessal, Stefan Ecks, Peter Goodrich, Marina Gržini¿, Rosaura Martinez-Ruiz, Tracy McNulty, Elizabeth Stewart, Calvin Warren, Anthony Wexler

About the author

Elizabeth Stewart, issue editor

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Stewart
• Assisted by: Elizabeth Stewart (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.11.2023
• EAN: 9781478024781
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-2478-1
• No. of pages: 277
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education