Portraits of Violence. Brad Evans

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      Portraits of Violence

      An Illustrated History of Radical Thinking

      First published in 2016 by

      New Internationalist Publications Ltd

      The Old Music Hall

      106-108 Cowley Road

      Oxford OX4 1JE, UK

       newint.org

      © Brad Evans and Sean Michael Wilson

      The right of Brad Evans and Sean Michael Wilson to be identified as the authors of

      this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents

      Act 1998.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval

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      electronic, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission

      of the publisher.

      Artwork by Robert Brown, Inko, Chris Mackenzie, Michiru Morikawa, Yen Quach and

      Carl Thompson.

      Printed by PBtisk s.t.o., Czech Republic, who hold environmental accreditation

      ISO 14001.

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      ISBN 978-1-78026-318-2

      (ebook ISBN 978-1-78026-319-9)

      Contents

      All chapters written by Brad Evans and Sean Michael Wilson

       Foreword by Henry A Giroux 7

       Chapter 1 Brad Evans: Thinking Against Violence 13

      Illustrated by Inko

       Chapter 2 Hannah Arendt: The Banality of Evil 25

      Illustrated by Chris Mackenzie

       Chapter 3 Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth 37

      Illustrated by Carl Thompson

       Chapter 4 Paulo Freire: The Pedagogy of the Oppressed 49

      Illustrated by Inko

       Chapter 5 Michel Foucault: Society Must Be Defended 61

      Illustrated by Robert Brown

       Chapter 6 Edward Said: Orientalism 73

      Illustrated by Carl Thompson

       Chapter 7 Susan Sontag: Regarding the Pain of Others 85

      Illustrated by Inko

       Chapter 8 Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent 97

      Illustrated by Carl Thompson

       Chapter 9 Judith Butler: Precarious Lives 109

      Illustrated by Michiru Morikawa

       Chapter 10 Giorgio Agamben: Sovereign Power/Bare Life 121

      Illustrated by Yen Quach

       Biographical notes for the writers and the artists 133

      How do we educate

      about violence?

      Henry A Giroux

      There has never been a more urgent time to develop the necessary

      pedagogical tools to critique forms of violence in the contemporary period.

      Unfortunately, we live at a moment in which ignorance appears to be one

      of the defining features of political and cultural life. Ignorance has become

      a form of weaponized refusal to acknowledge the violence of the past,

      and revels in a culture of media spectacles in which public concerns are

      translated into private obsessions, consumerism and fatuous entertainment.

      As James Baldwin rightly warned, ‘Ignorance, allied with power, is the most

      ferocious enemy justice can have.’

      What I have called in my work the violence of organized forgetting signals

      how contemporary politics are those in which emotion triumphs over reason,

      and spectacle over truth, thereby erasing history by producing an endless

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