04236cam a2200805 4500 2720173384 TxAuBib 20260401120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781943208159 1943208158 B0C69D4JLT Amazon 063ddae0-5320-4a89-a33d-6b65ead44c94 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11022919 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Sánchez, Carlos Alberto. A Sense of Brutality [Libby eBook] : Philosophy after Narco-Culture. Amherst College Press, 2020. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. radical branch of philosophy. war against narcotrafficking. neoliberal capitalism. hyperconsumer culture. indifference to death. mexican drug cartels. unthinkable violence. disaster capitalism. philosophy of death. Jardines de Humaya. spectacle of death. violent terrorism. drug trafficking. extreme violence. narcotrafficking. Michel Foucault. objectification. antidrug policy. existentialism. dehumanization. Narco-violence. Narcos: Mexico. Netflix Narcos. border policy. derealization. war on drugs. narco-mantas. uncanniness. Irrational. Terrorism. terrorist. barbarism. horrorism. Foucault. Culiacán. corridos. killing. cruelty. murder . corpses. Mexico. Horror. Terror. HTML:Contemporary 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. <i>A Sense of Brutality</i> 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.<br /> <br /> "The study is original, bringing a wide range of voices into dialogue to present a problem that is pressing and deserving of careful analysis. The study will contribute to the field of Latin American philosophy in important ways... This is the only book by a philosopher on the topic of narco-culture, and I think it's an important contribution to a topic that should be addressed by philosophers." —Elizabeth Millán, DePaul University. Philosophy. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-03-31 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=063ddae0-5320-4a89-a33d-6b65ead44c94&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=063ddae0-5320-4a89-a33d-6b65ead44c94&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)