LEADER 04043oam 22004574a 450 001 9910247446903321 005 20210915045945.0 024 7 $a10.21983/P3.0166.1.00 035 $a(CKB)4100000001283588 035 $a(OAPEN)1004634 035 $a(OCoLC)1189785922 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse87212 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001283588 100 $a20200729e20202017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurm|#---a|||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aKill Boxes: Facing the Legacy of US-Sponsored Torture, Indefinite Detention, and Drone Warfare$fElisabeth Weber 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2020 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (267 pages) $cillustrations; PDF, digital file(s) 311 $a0-9985318-4-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 243-267). 327 $aIntroduction : shocks of recognition -- Torture was the essence of National-Socialism : reading Jean Amery Today -- Living-with-torture-together -- Literary Justice? Poems from Guanta?namo Bay Prison Camp -- Guanta?namo poems -- Ages of cruelty : Jacques Derrida, Fethi Benslama, and their challenges to psychoanalysis -- Kill boxes : Kafka's beetles, drones -- Afterword / by Richard Falk. 330 $aKill Boxes addresses the legacy of US-sponsored torture, indefinite detention, and drone warfare by deciphering the shocks of recognition that humanistic and artistic responses to violence bring to consciousness if readers and viewers have eyes to face them.Beginning with an analysis of the ways in which the hooded man from Abu Ghraib became iconic, subsequent chapters take up less culturally visible scenes of massive violations of human rights to bring us face to face with these shocks and the forms of recognition that they enable and disavow. We are addressed in the photo of the hooded man, all the more so as he was brutally prevented, in our name, from returning the camera's and thus our gaze. We are addressed in the screams that turn a person, tortured in our name, into howling flesh. We are addressed in poems written in the Guanta?namo Prison camp, however much American authorities try to censor them, in our name. We are addressed by the victims of the US drone wars, however little American citizens may have heard the names of the places obliterated by the bombs for which their taxes pay. And we know that we are addressed in spite of a number of strategies of brutal refusal of heeding those calls.Providing intensive readings of philosophical texts by Jean Amery, Jacques Derrida, and Christian Thomasius, with poetic texts by Franz Kafka, Paul Muldoon, and the poet-detainees of Guanta?namo Bay Prison Camp, and with artistic creations by Sallah Edine Sallat, the American artist collective Forkscrew and an international artist collective from Pakistan, France and the US, Kill Boxes demonstrates the complexity of humanistic responses to crimes committed in the name of national security. The conscious or unconscious knowledge that we are addressed by the victims of these crimes is a critical factor in discussions on torture, on indefinite detention without trial, as practiced in Guanta?namo, and in debates on the strategies to circumvent the latter altogether, as practiced in drone warfare and its extrajudicial assassination program.The volume concludes with an Afterword by Richard Falk. 606 $aPsychic trauma in literature 606 $aTorture$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aTorture in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPsychic trauma in literature. 615 0$aTorture$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aTorture in literature. 700 $aWeber$b Elisabeth$f1959-$0403042 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910247446903321 996 $aKill Boxes: Facing the Legacy of US-Sponsored Torture, Indefinite Detention, and Drone Warfare$92275233 997 $aUNINA