Everyday Representations of War in Late Modernity

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by Nerijus Milerius, Agnė Narušytė, Violeta Davoliūtė and Lukas Brasiskis

Type

Essays

Subject

Sociology

Keywords

war, representation

Publishing date

2022

Publisher

Palgrave MacMillan

Collection

Identities and Modernities in Europe

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 298 pages
5 ¾ x 8 ¼ inches (14.5 x 21 cm)

ISBN

978-3-031-07134-8

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Book Presentation:
This book analyses photographic and cinematographic representations of war and its memorialisation rituals in the period of late modernity from the perspectives of cultural sociology, philosophy, art theory and film studies. It reveals how the experience of war trauma takes root in everydayness and shows how artists try to question the ‘normality’ of the everyday, to actualise the memory of war trauma, to rethink the contrasting experiences of the time of war and everydayness, and to oppose the imposed historical narratives. The new representations are analysed by developing theories of war as a ‘magic spectacle’, also by using such concepts as spectres, triumph and trauma, collective social catastrophes, forensic architecture and others.

About the authors:
Nerijus Milerius, Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Agnė Narušytė, Professor at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania
Violeta Davoliūtė, Professor at Vilnius University, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Lithuania
Lukas Brašiškis, Adjunct Professor and Associate Curator for e-flux, Video & Film, NYU and CUNY, New York, USA

See the publisher website: Palgrave MacMillan