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Anatomy of Torture
Does torture \"work?\" Can controversial techniques such as waterboarding extract crucial and reliable intelligence? Since 9/11, this question has been angrily debated in the halls of power and the court of public opinion. In Anatomy of Torture, Ron E. Hassner mines the archives of the Spanish Inquisition to propose an answer that will frustrate and infuriate both sides of the divide.
The Inquisition's scribes recorded every torment, every scream, and every confession in the torture chamber. Their transcripts reveal that Inquisitors used torture deliberately and meticulously, unlike the rash, improvised methods used by the United States after 9/11. In their relentless pursuit of underground Jewish communities in Spain and Mexico, the Inquisition tortured in cold blood. But they treated any information extracted with caution: torture was used to test information provided through other means, not to uncover startling new evidence.
Hassner's findings in Anatomy of Torture have important implications for ongoing torture debates. Rather than insist that torture is ineffective, torture critics should focus their attention on the morality of torture. If torture is evil, its efficacy is irrelevant. At the same time, torture defenders cannot advocate for torture as a counterterrorist \"quick fix\": torture has never located, nor will ever locate, the hypothetical \"ticking bomb\" that is frequently invoked to justify brutality in the name of security.
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Bearing Witness
This book discusses the kind of mental processing that can free victims from their unspeakable trauma, a trauma that has no framework in time or words with which to express it. It discusses the traumatic scenes that are extreme expressions of historic and political conditions.
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Way Down in the Hole
Based on ethnographic observations and interviews with prisoners, correctional officers, and civilian staff conducted in solitary confinement units, Way Down in the Hole explores the myriad ways in which daily, intimate interactions between those locked up twenty-four hours a day and the correctional officers charged with their care, custody, and control produce and reproduce hegemonic racial ideologies. Smith and Hattery explore the outcome of building prisons in rural, economically depressed communities, staffing them with white people who live in and around these communities, filling them with Black and brown bodies from urban areas and then designing the structure of solitary confinement units such that the most private, intimate daily bodily functions take place in very public ways. Under these conditions, it shouldn’t be surprising, but is rarely considered, that such daily interactions produce and reproduce white racial resentment among many correctional officers and fuel the racialized tensions that prisoners often describe as the worst forms of dehumanization. Way Down in the Hole concludes with recommendations for reducing the use of solitary confinement, reforming its use in a limited context, and most importantly, creating an environment in which prisoners and staff co-exist in ways that recognize their individual humanity and reduce rather than reproduce racial antagonisms and racial resentment.
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Way Down the Hole Video 3 (https://youtu.be/bOcBv_UnHIs)
Way Down the Hole Video 4 (https://youtu.be/cx_l1S8D77c)
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La aboliciâon del tormento: el inâedito Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial (c. 1795), de Pedro Garcâia del Canuelo
The abolition of judicial torture was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial, written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. This volume analyses, transcribes, and reproduces the complete Discurso.
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Im Labyrinth der Empfndlichkeiten
Es umfasste großformatige Digitalabzüge der schockierenden Folterfotos von Abu Ghraib,1 die nach der amerikani-schen Invasion des Irak 2003 aufgenommen und hier in einer Art Labyrinth arrangiert waren. Pamela Wong, Iraqi Artists Withdraw from Berlin Biennale, Artasiapacific, 18. August 2022; https://artasiapacific.com/news/iraqi-artists-withdraw-from-berlin-biennale bzw. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/berlin-biennale-iraq-artists-denounce-abu-ghraib-images. In einem Artikel in Artforum brachte die irakische Künstlerin und Kuratorin Rijin Sahakian vor, dass durch die Biennale Bilder der Gewalt an arabischen, genauer: irakischen Menschen, die man wie Tiere bändigen müsse, verstärkt bzw. popularisiert würden.3 Dage-3 Rijin Sahakian, Beyond Torture, Artforum, 29. Juli 2022; https://www.artforum.com/ columns/regarding-torture-at-the-berlin-biennale-251959/; die Replik der Biennale darauf findet sich hier: https://12.berlinbiennale.de/de/wp-content/uploads/ sites/2/2022/08/BB12_Statement-Berlin-Biennale_DE.pdf?x79073. gen wandte Kader Attia ein, dass Bilder der Gewalt bewusst gezeigt werden müssten, um die Opfer zu heilen. Jedenfalls reichten die iraki-schen Empfindlichkeiten in diesem Fall nicht aus, um Kader Attia zum Rücktritt zu zwingen oder auch bloß Lebels Werk zu entfernen, wie es bei der documenta fifteen im selben Jahr sehr wohl geschah.6 6 Die Arbeit People's Justice (2002) der indonesischen Künstlergruppe Taring Padi wurde wegen Antisemitismusvorwürfen von der documenta 15 entfernt.
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