The Culture Of Death

Western culture has always been obsessed with death but now death has taken ona new anonymous form. The twentieth century saw the mass production of corpsesthro... » 

Western culture has always been obsessed with death but now death has taken ona new anonymous form. The twentieth century saw the mass production of corpsesthrough war and the triumph of technology over the human body. The newmillennium has opened with global terrorism and the suspension of human rightsin farflung prison camps.We live in an age of panic when the fear of death atany time and in any place is present. And we live in an age of apathy towardsboth science and institutional politics an age which has sanctioned the riseof technomedical and political powers which can deny our control over our ownbodies and lives and the lives of others. The Culture of Death explores thismoment to analyze our exposure to death in modern culture. «