Raids on human consciousness Book

	Series Editor's Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction: Raids on Human Consciousness
	Forms of Violence	1
	Media Violence	13
	Violence, Torture, and Language	15
	Prospectus	23
2	The Dream Life of Political Violence: Satire, Georges Sorel, and the Myth of Violence
	Epidemia and Revelation	30
	Sorel and the Possibilities of Anarchism	41
	Mythic and Divine Violence	63
	The Irrational	68
3	The Imagination of Disaster: Anarchism and the Modern Text
	Chaos and Control	71
	Anarchism, Labor, and the Travails of Emma Goldman	74
	Dynamite Talk: Anarchism and Fiction	80
	The Princess Casamassima	82
	A Hazard of New Fortunes	91
	The Octopus	101
	The Iron Heel	108
4	Dynamite Talk: Violence and Modernism
	The Modernist Aesthetic	117
	Conrad and Dostoevsky	120
	Anarchism, the Depression, and the Cold War	142
	The Fault Lines of Racial Difference: Violence and Silence	146
	Violence, Rhetoric, Debate	156
5	The Fantasy Life of the Movement: The Rhetoric of Violence on the New Left and After
	The Fantasy Life of the Movement	160
	Demon Lovers	169
	All-Consuming Violence	185
	The Cataclysm of Culture	191
	A Pure Cold Line of Abolition	197
6	Dying for a Common Language
	Violence and Contemporary Fiction	213
	Bruises, Roses: Kathy Acker	222
	The Land Mines of Anarchy	243
	Works Cited	253
	Index	267