Wound culture: Trauma in the pathological public sphere.
Asserts that modern society exhibits a wound culture as evidenced by the public fascination with torn and opened bodies, and the tendency to collect around shock, trauma and the wound. Indication of the uncertain relays between private desire and public space by the reemergence of the Greek trauma a...
| Published in: | October no. 80; pp. 3 - 27 |
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MIT Press
Spring97
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| Summary: | Asserts that modern society exhibits a wound culture as evidenced by the public fascination with torn and opened bodies, and the tendency to collect around shock, trauma and the wound. Indication of the uncertain relays between private desire and public space by the reemergence of the Greek trauma art category; Popularity of Caleb Carr's `The Alienist.' |
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