Brad Evans is a political philosopher, critical theorist, and writer, whose work specializes on the problem of violence. He is the founder/director of the Histories of Violence project, which has a global user base covering 143 countries. The author of some 10 books and edited volumes, along with over 40 academic and media articles, Brad currently serves as a senior lecturer at the School of Sociology, Politics & International Studies, at the University of Bristol, UK. Throughout 2015-’16, Brad led a series of articles and dialogues dedicated to the problem of violence for the opinions section of The New York Times (The Stone).
Brad’s latest books include Histories of Violence: Post-War Critical Thought (with Terrell Carver, Zed Books, 2017); Portraits of Violence: Ten Thinkers on Violence – An Illustrated History of Radical Thinking (with Sean Michael Wilson, New Internationalist, 2016); Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of the Spectacle (with Henry Giroux, City Lights: 2015); Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously (with Julian Reid, Polity Press, 2014); and Liberal Terror (Polity Press, 2013). He is currently working on a number of book projects, including Ecce Humanitas: Beholding the Pain of Humanity (Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2018).
He also edits the Histories of Violence Section of Los Angeles Review of Books.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Without Exception: On the Ordinariness of Violence
Brad Evans speaks with Lauren Berlant. A conversation in Brad Evans’s “Histories of Violence” series....
Histories of Violence: Nonviolence and the Ghost of Fascism
Brad Evans speaks with political philosopher and social activist Todd May. A conversation in Brad Evans’s Histories of Violence series....
Histories of Violence: Violence and the Art of the Political
Brad Evans speaks with political theorist Michael J. Shapiro. A conversation in Brad Evans’s “Histories of Violence” series....
Histories of Violence: Living with Disappearance
Brad Evans speaks with NYU professor Allen Feldman. A conversation in Brad Evans’s “Histories of Violence” series....
Histories of Violence: Neurodiversity and the Policing of the Norm
Brad Evans speaks with Canadian cultural theorist and philosopher Erin Manning. A conversation in Brad Evans’s “Histories of Violence” series....
The Intimate Life of Violence
Brad Evans speaks with Elaine Scarry, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University....
Recovering from an Addicted Life: A Conversation with Russell Brand
Brad Evans speaks with comedian, activist, and author Russell Brand about his latest book, “Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions.”...
Histories of Violence: Affect, Power, Violence — The Political Is Not Personal
Brad Evans speaks with Canadian philosopher and social theorist Brian Massumi. A conversation in Brad Evans’s “Histories of Violence” series....
Histories of Violence: The Violence of Art
Brad Evans speaks with British-born artist Jake Chapman, one half of the Chapman Brothers. A conversation in Brad Evans’s “Histories of Violence” series....
Histories of Violence: Operatic Violence
Brad Evans speaks with opera director Christopher Alden. A conversation in Brad Evans’s “Histories of Violence” series....
Histories of Violence: Violence to Thought
Brad Evans interviews David Theo Goldberg. A conversation in Brad Evans’s "Histories of Violence" series....
Histories of Violence: Landscapes of Violence
Brad Evans speaks with John Akomfrah. A conversation in Brad Evans’s “Histories of Violence” series....
Literary Violence
Brad Evans speaks with Tom McCarthy. A conversation in Brad Evans’s "Histories of Violence" series....
Songs in the Key of Revolution
Brad Evans talks to Neo Muyanga, a South African composer, musician, and cultural activist....
To Feel the World’s Pain and Its Beauty
Brad Evans talks to Bracha L. Ettinger in the latest installment of his "Histories of Violence" series....
Violence Is Our Present Condition: Alfredo Jaar
THIS IS THE FOURTH in a series of dialogues with artists, writers, and critical thinkers on the question of violence. This ...
Confronting the Intolerable
Brad Evans talks to artist Gottfried Helnwein for the "Histories of Violence" series....
Violence: The Director’s Eye
Brad Evans talks to director Oliver Stone for the first part of the "Histories of Violence" series....
Gilles Deleuze: The Event of Life
A roundtable on the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze on the 20th anniversary of his death....
Facing the Intolerable
Jacques Rancière and how a new politics of aesthetics disrupts the way we reduce violence into mediated forms....
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