I am dynamite: an alternative anthropology of power
Writer and Auschwitz witness Primo Levi; refugee and engineer Ben Glaser; artist Stanley Spencer; Israeli ceramicist Rachel Silberstein; Friedrich Nietzsche, the dynamic philosopher.What do all these figures exemplify?Freedom. Individuality. Existential power. The capacity and desire to live a life-project: to make one's life one's work. I am Dynamite ignites an alternative theory of the self and will, wrapped up in a combustible assault upon scholarly convention. Asking why the real effort of constructing and living within an identity is so often overlooked, it examines the subjective exp