The apprehending power of liberal rights only further valorizes the United States’ socio-legal structure that perpetuates by rendering certain lives unlivable. Instead, their meditation on racialized and gendered violence posits how the foundational “inconsistencies” of liberal democracy steadies its hold (11). In a move that will be unsurprising to readers familiar with their writings, Stanley denounces the state as the primary vehicle for recognition, inclusion, and safety. At the same time, the book unpacks how undoing can be leveraged towards unraveling modernity’s oppressive structures. Violence is an undoing the subtitle’s “structuring antagonism” refers to the ways that such undoing occurs at the level of lives subject to violent events. Violence does not have a singular meaning in the text, as it sometimes appears as a “force that ends life” and sometimes as “the only way life may unfold” (7). Stanley’s Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable delves into the spectacle and disappearance that racialized anti-trans/queer violence produces. Durham, NC and London, UK: Duke University Press, 2021. Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable.
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