Speaking about Torture

Among the shameful shameless behavior in public which has led to the majority of Americans who are asked small but shocking approving of torture as necessary for information: Colin Powell one of the few to break rank.

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Careless language again and again show this is not at all about information. Cheney has said we should decorate those who did this. Meanwhile their names are kept from us. Some international organizations continue to push back hard. Part Two places torture in the contexts of specific societies. He does not deny there is a self apart, but that the self acts within relationships — even if for some at a distance. Torture attacks the vulnerability of people in this area directly, it makes us aware of how dependent we are by depriving people of protection and provision.

It not only de-cultures people.

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This is an evil that occurs periodically and when encouraged hard to check. There is this impulse to control, for power. What you do is block the person and bring their exchanges to a standstill. A book called Psychopathologie des violences collectives is about states that use torture systematically — as the US does in prisons. The more a person is conscious of his or her vulnerability, dependence, more sensitive, the easier to torture and dominate. An important weapon is recognition, the withholding of it.

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When others recognize us and we them, the openness this depends keeps the torturer at bay tweets function in a vacuum where the slanderer or tormentor does not have to recognize responses. It is a kind of theatrical or performative act and thus deprivation and recognition can be manipulated in schools to make children very miserable. These structures emerge when virulent conflicts in the society are ratcheted up. Remember the Victorian novels about children whose pain goes unacknowledged Jane Eyre, David Copperfield.

Gorling then argues how those not literally there, those fed rumors of the torture are witnesses and so drawn into the relationship. These witnesses are subdivided into those who shrug, are complicit, seem to turn away and ignore it. Turn a blind eye.

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There is another set of people involved: Nowadays with the Internet we have many more silent witnesses. Isolation and disconnection seems to be part of the point of letting people know from afar that this is happening. That violence and trauma leave their mark. By radically splitting it off say into black sites it is easily kept out of overt culture but it is there, and at the end he describes those pictures from Abu Ghrabi which most of us have seen and do remember.

You can deny the urge to do it. I agree with her the title published as Survival in Auschwitz is worse than misleading: The idea was violate the integrity of the physical body, make you body your enemy since it is so full of pain, to make person be as dead. This reminds me of how a prisoner is forced to dress differently and everything taken from him or her when they enter a prison; only later is some returned as if it were a favor for good behavior.

Memory is integral to self-hood. He was left to die of scarlet fever when the Germans fled, but survived and resumed life in Milan as a manager of a chemical factory until when he retired to write full time. She goes over his works, and he fell from a stairwell in She will not say he killed himself — we cannot be sure says she.

Derwin then moves on to the work of Jean Amery who renamed himself from Franz Stangl, a former commandan of Treblinka — he killed himself afterwards too. He gave an interview and wrote that beyond the violence the pushing people into becoming quite naked and alone was torture.

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It is again what Carlson and Weber say at the beginning: Now Derwin suggests Amery tells us in effect the reason people kill themselves later is they can never forget that abandonment, they can never forget no one anywhere would help them. This intense loneliness italicized and lack of security and safety ever after triggers primordial anxieties, not to be overcome.

You cannot face your dependency and broken attachments. The anguish of survival is the world is afterward forever foreign a place you are tormented in.

Speaking about Torture

Then she brings back Levi where he describes sleeping with strangers who will sleep on top of you. I do remember this passage. It was so desolating how the people behaved to one another. They are out of contact with one another as people, all alone in effect. Without possibility of communication there can be no relief. A psychiatrist named Knell talks of how silence protects people, if you tell and get nowhere you feel rage or unprotected and it makes it all worse. People like Knell therefore are astonished at Levi and his lucidity. The policy of containment keeps you from that area of darkness.

Not at all, but I have read writers who I find are retaliating at the reader by terrifying them: So the gothic can be faulted centrally as a tool to hurt people? I have thought so …. Ethical people who cannot compromise. Another group is caught up in the Italian erased by the English translation of another book by Levi: The Drowned and the Saved: I sommersi and il salvati: Those who fell into utter silence were those among whom it was far less possible that a sliver would survive.

A shocking 80, died in southeast asia and the middle from torture — done by Americans too. Indignation means you have to think well of yourself on some level. Of course yes, but then he sent a doctor to look and before you know it a secret decree was issued between and 45 to slaughter and approximately babies died. It was mandatory to notify the hospital if your child was born with a defect. It does not evoke horror but inures and the stories are about how X got this great information. The people at Guantanamo and elsewhere are defined out of existence.

They are given a category which makes them not part of any category: They have no legal existence. She then turns to the effect of immediate brutalization and her examples are not from torture but arrests. This delivers a shock like torture: Weber discusses the problem of the softened and misleading translations of Amery who wrote in German.

Even the most famous phrases from this man have been toned down. The ignominy infamy of annihilation cannot be erased not Whoever has succumbed to torture can no longer feel at home in the world. The shame of destruction cannot be erased. She goes into the German language and how viscerally Amery uses it: When the police killed Eric Garner they would not his body breathe and we see on that video his hysteria and astonishment they were killing him.

Amery in his work shows us first how astonished people feel when they find themselves treated as nothing, as subhuman, as without a life that matters. Most tortured people even the submerged never cease to feel astonished at some level of their being. There is no path back from having experience this other side of death, of annihilation. Derwin out of Levi said sadists want to nullify other people. He or she occupies an inbetween place from then on where torture and the memories never end. As the Director General of Al Jazeera from , Wadah Khanfar worked to bring rare liberties like information, transparency and dissenting voices to repressive states and political hot zones.

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Acknowledging this history is central to the volume's advocacy of speaking about torture through the forms of witness offered and summoned by the humanities. Introduction Julie Carlson and Elisabeth Weber: For the Humanities I. America Tortures Lisa Hajjar: An Assault on Truth: In the Minotaur's Labyrinth: Singularities of Witness Reinhold Gorling: