Event overview
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Brad Evans, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Bristol, discusses the ways in which sacrifice inscribes political value on the human body.
Setting out the ways in which the “Figure of Humanity” has always been embodied in tragic and violated forms, this talk will attend to the political function of sacrifice in order to expose the symbolic value inscribed upon the bodies of humanised victims.
It aims to further our understanding of the concept of humanity as it appears as a tortured and sacrificial form, while interrogating the importance of performance in setting out the demarcations which render violence (in)tolerable for political expediency and public consumption.
In doing so, the talk will set out challenge the cycle of violence by pointing to need for more poetic alternatives, which demands more critically astute images of thought. This requires, it will be argued, liberating the political imagination from the scene of the sacrificial, for it is here that the memory of violence is inscribed with the logics of violence to come.
Brad Evans is the founder and director of the Histories of Violence project. His most recent books include “Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle” (with Henry Giroux) & “Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously” (with Julian Reid). Brad is currently leading a critical series on the philosophical problem of violence for the New York Times.
Dates & times
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| 28 Apr 2016 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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