LEADER 03014oam 22005174a 450 001 9910245735903321 005 20240201195022.0 010 $a9781947447134$b(ePDF) 010 $a1947447130$b(ePDF) 010 $z9781947447127$b(print) 010 $z1947447122$b(print) 024 7 $a10.21983/P3.0177.1.00 035 $a(CKB)4100000001115737 035 $a(OAPEN)1004644 035 $a(OCoLC)1048180585 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse77025 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30337 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001115737 100 $a20170808d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmu#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLuminol Theory$fLaura E. Joyce 205 $a1st edition. 210 $aBrooklyn, NY$cpunctum books$d2017 210 1$aSanta Barbara, CA :$cPunctum Books,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 134 pages) $cillustrations; PDF, digital file(s) 311 08$aPrint version: 9781947447127 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 $aRepresentations of forensic procedures saturate popular culture in both fiction and true crime. One of the most striking forensic tools used in these narratives is the chemical luminol, so named because it glows an eerie greenish-blue when it comes into contact with the tiniest drops of human blood. Luminol is a deeply ambivalent object: it is both a tool of the police, historically abused and misappropriated, and yet it offers hope to families of victims by allowing hidden crimes to surface. Forensic enquiry can exonerate those falsely accused of crimes, and yet the rise of forensic science is synonymous with the development of the deeply racist ?science? of eugenics. Luminol Theory investigates the possibility of using a tool of the state in subversive, or radical, ways. By introducing luminol as an agent of forensic inquiry, Luminol Theory approaches the exploratory stages that a crime scene investigation might take, exploring experimental literature as though these texts were ?crime scenes? in order to discover what this deeply strange object can tell us about crime, death, and history, to make visible violent crimes, and to offer a tangible encounter with death and finitude. At the luminol-drenched crime scene, flashes of illumination throw up words, sentences, and fragments that offer luminous, strange glimpses, bobbing up from below their polished surfaces. When luminol shines its light, it reveals, it is magical, it is prescient, and it has a nasty allure. 606 $aLaw$2bicssc 610 $acriminology 610 $acrime studies 610 $aforensic anthropology 610 $ahorror 610 $atrue crime 615 7$aLaw 700 $aJoyce$b Laura Ellen$0927224 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 912 $a9910245735903321 996 $aLuminol theory$92083349 997 $aUNINA