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A review by harryhas29
Gore Capitalism by Sayak Valencia
3.0
"That dead man shook me out of my spectralized and comfortable idea of death, ripped me out of the mediatized logic that tells us that bad things always happen to Others. The body makes me realize that I am the Others, without any inkling of humanism, coolness, or dilettantish solidarity. In other words, that dead man reconfirms for me that I am irrevocably marked by gender, race, class, and the geopolitical distribution of vulnerability. That dead man tells me that I am also responsible for his dismemberment, that my passivity as a citizen is crystallized in impunity. That dead man [...] tells me that I have to do something with this, because if I don't, it'll do something to me. That is the very beginning."
Well stated and formalized but not necessarily so well argued throughout. As a work about proposing systems by which to view violence, this is a success. But perhaps not so much as defense of its own assertions, although I do generally believe them to be true.
Well stated and formalized but not necessarily so well argued throughout. As a work about proposing systems by which to view violence, this is a success. But perhaps not so much as defense of its own assertions, although I do generally believe them to be true.