A Sense of Brutality
Contemporary popular culture is riddled with references to Mexican drug cartels, narcos, and drug trafficking. In the United States, documentary filmmakers, journalists, academics, and politicians have taken note of the increasing threats to our security coming from a subculture that appears to feed...
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2022
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| description | Contemporary popular culture is riddled with references to Mexican drug cartels, narcos, and drug trafficking. In the United States, documentary filmmakers, journalists, academics, and politicians have taken note of the increasing threats to our security coming from a subculture that appears to feed on murder and brutality while being fed by a romanticism about power and capital. Carlos Alberto Sánchez uses Mexican narco-culture as a point of departure for thinking about the nature and limits of violence, culture, and personhood. A Sense of Brutality argues that violent cultural modalities, of which narco-culture is but one, call into question our understanding of “violence” as a concept. The reality of narco-violence suggests that “violence” itself is insufficient to capture it, that we need to redeploy and reconceptualize “brutality” as a concept that better captures this reality. Brutality is more than violence, other to cruelty, and distinct from horror and terror—all concepts that are normally used interchangeably with brutality, but which, as the analysis suggests, ought not to be. In narco-culture, the normalization of brutality into everyday life is a condition upon which the absolute erasure or derealization of people is made possible. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-907692025-08-13T13:42:49Z A Sense of Brutality Sánchez, Carlos Alberto Drug traffic -- Mexico. Drug traffic -- Mexican-American Border Region. Drug control -- United States. Organized crime -- Mexico. Violence -- Philosophy. Cruelty -- Philosophy. thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy Contemporary popular culture is riddled with references to Mexican drug cartels, narcos, and drug trafficking. In the United States, documentary filmmakers, journalists, academics, and politicians have taken note of the increasing threats to our security coming from a subculture that appears to feed on murder and brutality while being fed by a romanticism about power and capital. Carlos Alberto Sánchez uses Mexican narco-culture as a point of departure for thinking about the nature and limits of violence, culture, and personhood. A Sense of Brutality argues that violent cultural modalities, of which narco-culture is but one, call into question our understanding of “violence” as a concept. The reality of narco-violence suggests that “violence” itself is insufficient to capture it, that we need to redeploy and reconceptualize “brutality” as a concept that better captures this reality. Brutality is more than violence, other to cruelty, and distinct from horror and terror—all concepts that are normally used interchangeably with brutality, but which, as the analysis suggests, ought not to be. In narco-culture, the normalization of brutality into everyday life is a condition upon which the absolute erasure or derealization of people is made possible. 2022-08-06T04:03:17Z 2022-08-06T04:03:17Z 2022-08-05T12:46:00Z 2020 book ONIX_20220805_9781943208159_9 ONIX_20220805_9781943208159_9 OCN: 1227504405 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57780 9781943208142 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/90769 eng open access image/jpeg image/png image/png image/png image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57780/1/9781943208159.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57780/14/9781943208159.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57780/14/9781943208159.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57780/14/9781943208159.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57780/1/9781943208159.pdf Amherst College Press Amherst College Press 10.3998/mpub.11923978 10.3998/mpub.11923978 5132feb1-7b65-4dec-a06f-4162a0f6c93f 9781943208142 Amherst College Press 170 open access |
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