Unbearable Life
A Genealogy of Political Erasure
In ancient Rome, any citizen who had brought disgrace upon the state could be subject to a judgment believed to be worse than death: damnatio memoriae, condemnation of memory. The Senate would decree that every trace of the citizen's existence be removed from the city as if they had never existed in the first place. Once reserved for individuals, damnatio memoriae in different forms now extends to social classes, racial and ethnic groups, and even entire peoples. In modern times, the condemned go by different names-enemies of the people; the missing, the disappeared, ghost detainees in black sites-but they are subject to the same fate of poli…
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- ISBN: 978-0-231-55028-4
- EAN: 9780231550284
- Produktnummer: 30236709
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'000 KB
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Arthur Bradley
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