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The implicated subject : beyond victims and perpetrators /

Arguing that the familiar categories of victim, perpetrator, and bystander do not adequately account for our involvement in historical violence and contemporary inequality, this book introduces a new theory of political responsibility through the figure of the implicated subject.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rothberg, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]
Series:Cultural memory in the present.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : from victims and perpetrators to implicated subjects
  • The transmission belt of domination : theorizing the implicated subject
  • On (not) being a descendant : implicated subjects and the legacies of slavery
  • Progress, progression, procession : William Kentridge's implicated aesthetic
  • From Gaza to Warsaw : multidirectional memory and the perpetuator
  • Under the sign of suitcases : the Holocaust internationalism of Marceline Loridan-Ivens
  • "Germany is in Kurdistan" : Hito Steyerl's images of implication
  • Conclusion : transfiguring implication.