August 2nd, 2018
City Lights Open Media
Violence: Humans in Dark Times
Brad Evans and Natascha Lennard
Through a series of penetrating conversations originally published in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard talk with a wide range of cutting edge thinkers--including Oliver Stone, Gottfried Helnwein, Simon Critchley, and Elaine Scarry--to explore the problem of violence in everyday life, politics, culture, media, language, memory, and the environment. "To bring out the best of us," writes Evans, "we have to confront the worst of what humans are capable of doing to one another. In short, there is a need to confront the intolerable realities of violence in this world."




by Brad Evans (Author), Natasha Lennard (Author), Simon Critchley (Author), George Yancy (Author), Zygmunt Bauman (Author), Adrian Parr (Author), Henry A. Giroux (Author), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Author), Nicholas Mirzoeff (Author), Simona Forti (Author), Bracha L. Ettinger (Author), Cary Wolfe (Author), Richard J. Bernstein (Author), Moira Weigel (Author), Oliver Stone (Author), Gottfried Helnwein (Author), Alfredo Jaar (Author), Neo Muyanga (Author), Tom McCarthy (Author), John Akomfrah (Author), David Theo Goldberg (Author), Christopher Alden (Author), Jake Chapman (Author), Brian Massumi (Author), Elaine Scarry (Author), Erin Manning (Author), Michael J. Shapiro (Author), Allen Feldman (Author), Mickey Mod (Author), Jack Halberstram (Author)

  • Series: City Lights Open Media
  • Paperback: 180 pages
  • Publisher: City Lights Publishers (October 30, 2018)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0872867544
  • ISBN-13: 978-0872867543


About the Author


Dr. Brad Evans is a political philosopher, critical theorist and writer, whose work specialises on the problem of violence. The author of some ten books and edited volumes, along with over fifty academic and media articles, he serves as a Reader in Political Violence at the School of Sociology, Politics & International Studies, the University of Bristol, UK.

Throughout 2015-17, Brad was invited to lead a dedicated series for The New York Times (The Stone) on violence. Brad is currently the lead editor for dedicated section on violence and the arts/critical theory with The Los Angeles Review of Books.

His works are being translated into Spanish, Italian, German, Turkish and Korean.

Brad was recently the inaugural guest on the comedian Russell Brand's podcast show Under the Skin, which debuted at No.1 on the iTunes charts in United Kingdom and Australia & No. 3 in USA and Canada. It held its No.1 download positions in both respective countries for over a week.

Brad Evans is a Professor of Political Violence & Aesthetics at the University of Bath, UK. A political philosopher, critical theorist and writer, whose work specializes on the problem of violence, he is the author of some ten books and edited volumes, along with over fifty academic and media articles. He is the founder & director of the Histories of Violence Project.

Natasha Lennard is a columnist for The Intercept. Her work has appeared in Esquire, The Nation, The New Inquiry and The New York Times, among others.She teaches critical journalism at the New School For Social Research.

"Notable contemporary thinkers and creators give their individual perspectives in this compelling look at violence. . . . A provocative volume that challenges humanity to correct its runaway course toward an increasingly violent future by learning from its violent past."--Kirkus Reviews



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January 24, 2017 Los Angeles Review of Books
Confronting the Intolerable Brad Evans interviews Gottfried Helnwein Throughout the entire history, the only forces capable of resisting tyranny and suppression are artists, thinkers, and writers. These are the makers of what we call culture, which means the combination of aesthetics and spirituality. Dictators know that, they have a very good sense for the only serious threat to their power: free creation and free communication. On this planet, creating means to stand up, to rebel, to resist, it means striking back.

http://www.helnwein.com/news/news_update/article_5837-Confronting-the-Intolerable