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Abnormal Normality
Addictive Violence
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Blood Meridian
Body Machine Complex
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Circuitous
Contemporary Society
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FBI Profiler
FBI's Behavioral Science Unit
forensic psychology
humaine
identity instability
John Barleycorn
Lethal Absorption
Literal Technologies
machine
Machine Culture
mass media influence
Mimetic Compulsion
murder
normality
pathological
Pathological Public Sphere
psychoanalytic theory
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Serial Killing
Serial Murder
Serial Violence
Skin Games
Social Symbolic Order
sphere
technological determinism
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Violated
violence
violence and technology studies
Vital Order
Wound Culture
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415914819
- Weight: 438g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jan 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this provocative cultural study, the serial killer emerges as a central figure in what Mark Seltzer calls 'America's wound culture'. From the traumas displayed by talk show guests and political candidates, to the violent entertainment of Crash or The Alienist, to the latest terrible report of mass murder, we are surrounded by the accident from which we cannot avert our eyes. Bringing depth and shadow to our collective portrait of what a serial killer must be, Mark Seltzer draws upon popular sources, scholarly analyses, and the language of psychoanalysis to explore the genesis of this uniquely modern phenomenon. Revealed is a fascination with machines and technological reproduction, with the singular and the mass, with definitions of self, other, and intimacy. What emerges is a disturbing picture of how contemporary culture is haunted by technology and the instability of identity.
