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Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Became Modern by T.K. Wilson
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447190 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Became Modern
Author: T.K. Wilson
Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Release date: December 29, 2020
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
A bewildering feature of so much contemporary political violence is its stunning impersonality. Every major city center becomes a potential shooting gallery; and every metro system a potential bomb alley. Victims just happen, as the saying goes, to 'be in the wrong place at the wrong time.' We accept this contemporary reality—at least to some degree. But we rarely ask: where has it come from historically? Killing Strangers tackles this question head on. It examines how such violence became 'unchained' from interpersonal relationships. It traces the rise of such impersonal violence by examining violence in conjunction with changing social and political realities. In particular, it traces both 'push' and 'pull'—the ability of modern states to force the violence of their challengers into niche forms: and the disturbing new opportunities that technological changes offer to cause mayhem in fresh and original ways. Killing Strangers therefore aims to highlight the very strangeness of contemporary experience when it is viewed against a long-term perspective. Atrocities regularly capture media attention—and just as quickly fade from public view. That is both tragic—and utterly predictable. Deep down we expect no different. So Killing Strangers deliberately asks the very simplest of questions. How on earth did we get here?
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By thebookvoice.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447190 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Became Modern
Author: T.K. Wilson
Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Release date: December 29, 2020
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
A bewildering feature of so much contemporary political violence is its stunning impersonality. Every major city center becomes a potential shooting gallery; and every metro system a potential bomb alley. Victims just happen, as the saying goes, to 'be in the wrong place at the wrong time.' We accept this contemporary reality—at least to some degree. But we rarely ask: where has it come from historically? Killing Strangers tackles this question head on. It examines how such violence became 'unchained' from interpersonal relationships. It traces the rise of such impersonal violence by examining violence in conjunction with changing social and political realities. In particular, it traces both 'push' and 'pull'—the ability of modern states to force the violence of their challengers into niche forms: and the disturbing new opportunities that technological changes offer to cause mayhem in fresh and original ways. Killing Strangers therefore aims to highlight the very strangeness of contemporary experience when it is viewed against a long-term perspective. Atrocities regularly capture media attention—and just as quickly fade from public view. That is both tragic—and utterly predictable. Deep down we expect no different. So Killing Strangers deliberately asks the very simplest of questions. How on earth did we get here?