#DeathWorld / How Israel and the US create a "death world" breaking not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law
[...] "today, the death world we know is Gaza."
Gaza has become a place where the conditions are so systematically destructive and dehumanizing that its inhabitants exist in a state between life and death - where normal human existence has been made impossible through deliberate policy.
Israel's systematic destruction of Gaza over 88 weeks that has killed nearly 56,000 Palestinians, including over 15,000 children, while displacing 1.9 million people are crimes.
Hansen shows how US officials privately acknowledged Israeli war crimes while publicly defending them. State Department resignees describe how the Biden administration ignored clear evidence of deliberate aid blocking and civilian targeting, with one official stating that Biden administration officials "completely forfeit any right to critique the Trump administration for lack of morals" after laying the groundwork for lawlessness.
Both governments have deliberately shattered the post-WWII international legal order, creating what the author calls a "death world" in Gaza through systematic violations of humanitarian law.
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Spirit in Ashes. Hegel, Heidegger, and Man-Made Mass
[1985]Edith Wyschogrod's concept of the "death world" is a philosophical and ethical framework she developed to understand the phenomenon of man-made mass death in the modern era.
In her book "Spirit in Ashes: Hegel, Heidegger, and Man-Made Mass Death", she argues that events such as the #Holocaust, the use of nuclear weapons, genocides, famines, and forced deportations are not isolated incidents but part of a single global phenomenon she calls the "death event." This event has radically altered the meaning of self, time, and language in human experience.
Wyschogrod defines the "death world" as a new and unique form of social existence where populations live under conditions simulating death, effectively becoming "the living dead." This includes three main expressions:
1. Wars deploying weapons designed for maximum human destruction,
2. The intentional use of famine, deportation, and dislocation to destroy populations,
3. The creation of death worlds, such as concentration camps, where life is reduced to a state of ongoing death.
Reviewed Work: Spirit in Ashes. Hegel, Heidegger, and Man-Made Mass Death Edith Wyschogrod [Review by: Judith Butler] jstor.org/stable/2504962
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