Social Bonds and Catastrophic Acts

Topics covered include trauma, political violence, and the memorializations of trauma; how French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan's concept of "passage l'acte" can be used to analyze the dissolution of social bonds and the emergence of violence in contemporary societies; and the emergence of necropolitics, necrocapitalism, Afropessimism, and "Lacan noir" on the socio-politico-cultural scene.

Contributors
Gustavo Dessal, Stefan Ecks, Peter Goodrich, Marina Grzinic, Rosaura Martinez-Ruiz, Tracy McNulty, Elizabeth Stewart, Calvin Warren, Anthony Wexler

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147802478X
• ISBN13: 9781478024781
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 200 Pages