Formations of Violence

1. Artifacts and Instruments of Agency
Surfaces and Centers
Embodied Transcripts
Map of the Book
The Politics of Narration
2. Spatial Formations of Violence
Origin Space
Partitions
The Interface
The Sanctuary
Paramilitaries, Populist Violence, and State Formation
The Runback
3. Hardmen, Gunmen, Butchers, Doctors, Stiffs, Ghosts, and Black Men
From Hardmen to Gunmen
Sensory Formations
The Butchers
Genealogies of the Dead
Stiffing
Doorsteps
Sacrificial Transfers
The Symbolic, the Imaginary, and the Real
The Black Man
4. Being Done: Rites of Politicl Passage
Endocolonization
The Collectivization of Arrest
Resisting Arrest
Capture
Getting Done
Arrest and Death
Interrogation: Ceremony of Verification
The Name and the Eye
White Spaces
The Sensorium of Death
Breaking the Interrogation
Battle-proofing
5. The Breaker's Yard
Prison Regime
Criminalization
Aborted Initiations
Scatology
The Mirror
The Body as Weapon Artifact
Mechanical Bears
Techniques and Discourses of the Body
6. Eschatology
H6
The Stiff
The Lark
Biological Time, Prison Time, Historical Time
Sacrifice Doubled
A Scene of Exchange from the Gospels
Interiorizing Subjects and Objects
The Reversal of Sacrifice
Appendix 1: Glossary
Appendix 2: Organizations Cited
Appendix 3: Republican Paramilitary Cohort
Notes
References
Index