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020			_a9781943208159
020			_z9781943208142
035			_a(OCoLC)1273428894
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050		4	_aHV5840.M4 _bS36 2020
082	0		_a364.133650972 _223
100	1		_aSánchez, Carlos Alberto, _d1975- _eauthor.
245	1	2	_aA Sense of Brutality : _bPhilosophy after Narco-Culture / _cCarlos Alberto Sánchez.
264		1	_aBaltimore, Maryland : _bProject Muse, _c2021
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2021
264		4	_c©2021
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_aContemporary 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.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aCruelty _xPhilosophy.
650		0	_aViolence _xPhilosophy.
650		0	_aOrganized crime _zMexico.
650		0	_aDrug control _zUnited States.
650		0	_aDrug traffic _zMexican-American Border Region.
650		0	_aDrug traffic _zMexico.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse, _edistributor.
776	1	8	_iPrint version: _z9781943208142
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/85742/
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