Traumatized

The New Politics of Public Suffering

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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What happens when an idea born of genuine suffering is weaponized as a tool of social control? Traumatized is the story of how shell shock became PTSD, how Oprah turned pain into profit, and how "authenticity" became the ultimate brand. It is a history of surveillance capitalism's greatest coup: convincing us that wounds define us and that accommodating each other's trauma is more important than challenging the powerful.Catherine Liu delivers an unflinching diagnosis of our current crisis, rooted as it is in the collapse of liberal politics, the ascendance of performance fragility, and the rise of emotional display as a surrogate for political action. Sharp, provocative, and urgently necessary, Traumatized argues that we must reject a politics of permanent victimhood since it destroys solidarity and leaves us defenseless against the systems that cause real harm.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-09-29
Mått140 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt284 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieVerso Books
Antal sidor192
FörlagVerso Books
ISBN9781804296745

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Catherine Liu is Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Irvine. She is the author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class and American Idyll: Academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique. She has published widely on critical theory, populism, film and art criticism, psychoanalysis, and left historiography. You can find more of her writing at CLiuAnon.substack.com. Liu is the founder and director of the Palm Springs School for Social Research, an educational and research-focused think tank and plat-form for intellectual and creative engagement with history, culture, and politics.