A materialist critique of the politics, poetics and economics of suffering in liberalism that argues for attention to the labour of suffering of the victim in many well-meaning but flawed politics of redress, and imagines forms of representation, solidarity and justice that better...
Introduction: Suffering's Dead? PART I: SUFFERING LIBERALISM Suffering, Incorporated The Theatre of the Ascetic The Liberal Sensorium PART II: RECUPERATING MATERIALISM From Noisy Spheres to Hidden Abodes The Fetishism of Injuries The Tragic Art of Historical Materialists