Towards a Philosophy of Narco Violence in Mexico
Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Prologue: The Horror -- References -- 2 Necropower -- Spatiality and Necropower -- Voyeurism of Death -- The Visual Syntax -- The State of Exception -- The Ideology of Murder -- 'We, the Dead, Accuse!' -- Violator's Violation -- Logic of Illogic? -- The Law Is Dead-Long Live the Divine -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Arguing Death -- The Framework -- Heroic Agency -- Fatalism of the Nomos -- Mourning Is Another Country -- And the Living … -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 The Gods of Wrath -- The Cult of Cadavers -- Topography of the Underdog -- An Omnipotent Sovereign -- A Need Based Deity -- Revenge of the Secular -- Counterfeit Divine -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Necessary Murder -- 'We Don't Need No Stinkin' Badges' -- Utilitarian Destruction -- Killing as Sacrifice -- The Anti-State -- Civil Society and Anti-Killing -- Femicide -- So Far from God … -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Necropolis -- Ontology of the Crypt -- On Dead Spaces -- Evocation -- Embodied Place -- Catholicism, the Church, and the Crypt -- Conclusion -- References -- What Now? -- References -- Index.