Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. The Writing Of Disappearance: Artist Statement ix
4. The Aesthetics of Disappearance 3
5. Postfigurative Im/memorial Art: For the Sake of Carrying Disappeared Worlds 27
6. A Murder of Possibilities: The Altricidal State as a Robinsonade 53
7. The Violence of Organized Forgetting 94
8. Slavery, Death, and Disappearance 114
9. Disappearances 128
10. Art and the Disappeared: Beyond the Face 145
11. Theatre of the Disappeared 160
12. Vanishing Points 173
13. Witness 189
14. State, Disappearing 192
15. The Disappearance of Emergencies 204
16. Technologies of Disappearance 212
17. D—nce 226
18. The Disappearance of the Aesthetic 247
19. Contributors 265
20. Index 271