"Disposable Futures" makes the case that we have not just become desensitized to
violence, but rather, that we are being taught to desire it. From movies and ot
her commercial entertainment to "extreme" weather and acts of terror, authors Br
ad Evans and Henry Giroux examine how a contemporary politics of spectacle--and
disposability--curates what is seen and what is not, what is represented and wha
t is ignored, and ultimately, whose lives matter and whose do not.
"Disposable
Futures" explores the connections between a range of contemporary phenomena: mas
s surveillance, the militarization of police, the impact of violence in film and
video games, increasing disparities in wealth, and representations of ISIS and
the ongoing terror wars. Throughout, Evans and Giroux champion the significance
of public education, social movements and ideas that rebel against the status qu
o in order render violence intolerable.
