If you think this tour de force by our fave feminist deconstructionist won't interest you, think again.
If you've got the theory guts to try and the endurance to stick this one out, you won't regret it. We promise. With astonishing intelligence and razor-sharp wit, Ronell demonstrates the relevance of Freud's trauma theory to the social landscape of the 1990s: including all the spectacles and the media-broadcast wars.
Avital Ronell places psychoanalytic theory alongside the Rodney King riots, to unbelievable effect. Seriously. See for yourself.
- Why does Ronell turn her attention to "the wasted, condemned bodies that crumble before a television"? How could these bodies inspire us to rethink our own ethics?
- What do you make of the form of Ronell's essay? What is the "twelve-step" structure about? And what about those wacky repeated interruptions from the broadcast?