Description
NECROMACHINE
Book Summary
In Necromachine, Rossana Reguillo gathers a series of essays, ethnographies, and chronicles that seek to unravel the languages of contemporary violence. Through research situated in time and across various territories, the author delves into the grammars and calligraphies of horror to construct analytical categories that allow for narrating the unspeakable. This work offers the reader tools to understand how reason and words collapse in the face of violence, proposing methodologies for approaching a complex and disturbing reality.
What is it about?
The book is the result of a long-term research program that seeks to make the expressions of violence visible and intelligible. Throughout its pages, the author explores how violent discourses and practices are configured, analyzing their structures and manifestations in different contexts. It is an effort to test approaches that allow for narrating what seems to escape all representation, offering a critical and ethnographic gaze on horror and its mechanisms.
Main themes
- Languages and grammars of contemporary violence
- Ethnography and chronicle of horror and the unspeakable
- Research methodologies situated in contexts of violence
- Collapse of reason and words in the face of extreme violence
- Analysis of calligraphies and discourses of destructive power
Who is it recommended for?
This book is aimed at researchers, anthropologists, sociologists, and social science students interested in the study of violence from an ethnographic and critical perspective. It is also of great value to journalists, chroniclers, and professionals working in conflict contexts, as well as readers interested in understanding the deep dynamics of horror and its representations.
What this book contributes
- A novel analytical framework for understanding the languages of violence beyond traditional approaches.
- Concrete methodologies for investigating and narrating phenomena that seem to escape representation.
- A collection of ethnographies and chronicles that illuminate the calligraphies of horror in diverse territories.
- Tools to make the grammars of contemporary violence visible and intelligible.
- A profound reflection on the collapse of reason and words in the face of the unspeakable.
Technical specifications
- Author: Reguillo, Rossana
- Publisher: Nuevos Emprendimientos Editoriales S L
- Language: Spanish
- Subject: Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography
- Collection: Huellas y señales
- Publication date: November 2021
- Number of pages: 244
- Weight: 466 g
Editorial review
Necromachine is presented as an essential work for those seeking conceptual and methodological tools to address violence from a critical and situated perspective. Rossana Reguillo's proposal stands out for its ability to combine academic rigor with writing that does not shy away from the crudeness of its object of study. It is a book that invites a rethinking of the limits of representation and to confront horror with analytical intelligence, becoming a reference for contemporary social thought.