Cruelty and the Crisis of Mediation : A Multi-Layered Analysis

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This interdisciplinary volume offers a bold rethinking of cruelty in contemporary political, cultural, and psychological contexts. Drawing on philosophy, psychoanalysis, cultural theory, and media studies, the book explores how cruelty manifests across institutions, infrastructures, and representations from war photography and neoliberal economics to AI and surrealist art. It examines the breakdown of mediation in politics, the crisis of the autonomous subject, and the libidinal economy of sadism and masochism. Rather than treating cruelty as a moral lapse or psychological pathology, the contributors examine it as a structural and aesthetic force that organizes perception, politics, and representation. The volume provides a multi-layered anatomy of cruelty, dissecting its material, symbolic, and affective dimensions. With authors from a range of global locations, the book offers a truly global and methodologically diverse perspective. It will be essential reading for scholars and students of continental philosophy, political theory, and social philosophy.

Chapter 1. Introduction:From Brutality to Cruelty and Back Again.- PART I: THE EYE AND THE EAR, OR THE MEDIATION OF CRUELTY.- Chapter 2. Werner Herzog or Documents of Cruelty.- Chapter 3. Terror of the Ear, Torture of Love.- Chapter 4. Mickey Mouse and Cruel Technicity:Revisiting Walter Benjamin s Concept of Technological Reproducibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.- Chapter 5. War Photography and Embodied Suffering:A Phenomenological Image Analysis.- PART II: HEADS OR TAILS, OR THE NEOLIBERAL ECONOMY OF BODIES.- Chapter 6. Coldness and Alienation in Civil Engineering Infrastructure.- Chapter 7. Capitalist Realism Fifteen Years Later.- Chapter 8. The Cruel Fantasy of Non-Relationality: Depressed Society in an Isolation Tank.- PART III: FACELESSNESS, OR CRUELTY AS PERVERSION.- Chapter 9. The Unbearable Happiness of Writing: The Cruelty of Euphoria in Franz Kafka s Letters and Diaries.- Chapter 10. Cruelty Always Transforms in The Great Silence: How Perversion Restores the Consistency of Law.-  Chapter 11. At the Back of My Head: Cruelty, Submission, and Desire in Xavier Dolan s Tom at the Farm.- Chapter 12. Ontological Cruelty And Art: 
The Surreal World Of Hans Bellmer's Dolls.- PART IV: THE CORPSE, OR THE POLITICAL AND BEYOND.- Chapter 13. Cruelty, Savagery, and Art: What the Ancients Can, Indirectly, Tell Us about Modern Art?.- Chapter 14. Cruelty Through Its Opposites.- Chapter 15. Cruelty as Metaphor: Penal Reforms and Civilizational Discourse(s) in Colonial India.- Chapter 16. Evil Entanglements: Assembling A Materialist-Vitalist Theory Of Evil.- Chapter 17. Absolute Cruelty under the Rule of the Pleasure Principle.

Szymon Wróbel is a professor of philosophy at the Faculty of Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw and the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is the author of numerous publications, including the co-edited book, Rethinking Materialism: Making the World Material Again (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).

Katarzyna Szafranowska researches at the University of Warsaw. She is a philosopher and cultural theorist, working as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Artes Liberales.


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