Brad Evans is a political philosopher, critical theorist, and writer specialising in the problem of violence. He is Professor of Political Violence & Aesthetics at the University of Bath and the lead editor for the Histories of Violence section with the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Introduction - Brad Evans & Adrian Parr

1. The Poetry of Resistance - Malcolm London

2. Breaking the World - Marina Abramovic

3. Trans-species Encounters - David Rothenberg

4. Recovering from an Addicted Life - Russell Brand

5. Non-Violence & the Ghost of Fascism - Todd May (Clemson University)

6. Without Exception: On the Ordinariness of Violence - Lauren Berlant (University of Chicago)

7. The Anatomy of Destruction - Gil Anidjar (Columbia University)

8. The Intimate Witness: Art and the Disappeared of History - Chantal Meza

9. The Death of Humanitarianism - Mark Duffield (Global Insecurities Centre)

10. The Expulsion of Humanity - Saskia Sassen (Columbia University)

11. When Art is Born of Resistance - Martha Rosler

12. The Tragedy of Existence - Simon Critchley (New School for Social Research)

13. The Violence of the Algorithm - Davide Panagia (University of California)

14. Thinking Art in a Decolonial Way - Lewis Gordon

15. What does an Anti-Fascist Life Feel Like? - Natasha Lennard (New School for Social Research)

16. Life in Zones of Abandonment - Henry A. Giroux

17. The Violence of Absent Emergencies - Santiago Zabala

18. The Ghosts of Civilised Violence - Alex Taek-Gwang Lee (Kyung Hee University, Seoul)

19. Violence is Freedom - Roy Scranton (University of Notre-Dame)

20. Slavery in America - Ana-Lucia Araujo (Howard University)

21. Why We Should All Read Walter Benjamin Today - James Martel (San Francisco State University)

22. Unlearning History - Ariella Aisha Azoulay (Brown University)

23. When Death Travels - Gareth Owen

24. The Poverty of Violence - Ananya Roy (UCLA)

25. The Violence of Denial - Linda Melvern

26. Why We Should All Read Malcolm X Today - Kehinde Andrews (Birmingham City University)

27. America is Not a Fascist State. It's an Authoritarian one - Ruth Ben-Ghiat (New York University)

28. The Atmosphere of Violence - Fatima Bhutto

29. The Inherited Memory of Art - Mark Bradford

30. Look Closer, Then You Will See - Isaac Cordal

31. The Revolutionary Potential of Pacificism - Richard Jackson (University of Otago, NZ)

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