When violence enters the routine
An essay about what follows an act of violence, and Marlon James’s forthcoming The Disappearers.
Theme
Ana Paula Maia
Labour and violence operate through systems that continue beyond explanation.
Reviews filed under this theme.
Business Continues: Ten Novels and the Speed of Harm
Violence converted into procedure across ten novels, from a Brazilian slaughterhouse to a predator whose vocabulary outlives him.
Bury Your Dead
A roadside depot grinds animal carcasses while human corpses wait on a morgue van that never starts. Dignity falls to whoever will carry a body.
Of Cattle and Men
A slaughter system absorbs labour, appetite and waste, processing even catastrophe back into order.
On Earth As It Is Beneath
A penal colony keeps the language of discipline in place long after discipline has become organised disappearance.