Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering by Liu, Catherine

Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781804296745)

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Format: Hardcover
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Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering by Liu, Catherine

Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering

$24.95
Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering by Liu, Catherine

Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering

$24.95
Format: Hardcover
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How trauma became a weapon, by highly-acclaimed author of Virtue Hoarders

Traumatized traces the emergence and triumph of the concept of trauma in public life. From shell-shock and PTSD to the power of Oprah Winfrey and the authentic personal brand, Liu weaves together the history of this now ubiquitous idea and explains what it all means for our society.Trauma culture speaks to our current moment - the demise of liberalism, the expansion of social media, and the rise of surveillance capitalism. Trauma culture promised liberation from repression and oppression but has never delivered. Instead, it has been made into a weapon to individualise suffering, promoting a politics of false consensus. It undermines solidarity and eviscerated the foundations of liberal politics by demanding submission to a regime of vulnerability and accommodation. When suffering is all we have in common, what are we to do when we are all too traumatised to resist?

Author: Catherine Liu
ISBN-10: 1804296740
ISBN-13: 9781804296745
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 09/29/2026
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
By Catherine Liu
By Catherine Liu
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Liu is professor in the Departments of Film and Media Studies/Visual Studies, Comparative Literature and English at the University of California, Irvine, where she also served as director of the UCI Humanities Center. She is the author of Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton, The American Idyll: Academic Anti-Elitism as Cultural Critique and Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class.

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