Journal article
Disturbing Pleasures
Abstract
The photographs of the US ‘Kill Team’ smiling next to dead Afghan civilians are taken as deeply symptomatic of a broader shift in American culture away from compassion towards a barbarous pleasure in spectacles of pain and torture. American popular culture increasingly manifests a ‘depravity of aesthetics’ through eagerly consuming displays of aggression, brutality and death. Connecting an ideology of hardness and the economy of pleasure it …
Authors
Giroux HA
Journal
Third Text, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 259–273
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publication Date
May 2012
DOI
10.1080/09528822.2012.679036
ISSN
0952-8822