Philippa Snow’s Which As You Know Means Violence (Repeater Books, 2022) examines self-injury as a cultural phenomenon spanning art, entertainment, and performance. Opening with a Hunter S. Thompson quote to Johnny Knoxville regarding a Baton Rouge visit, the work contextualizes transgressive performance practices within contemporary culture. Snow’s critical analysis engages with the aestheticization of pain and bodily transgression in entertainment, relevant to dark alternative culture’s engagement with corporeal extremity, spectacle, and the boundaries between art and self-destruction. Published by Repeater—a key publisher in the post-punk critical sphere—the book aligns with theoretical discourse surrounding bodily autonomy, spectacle capitalism, and transgressive aesthetics that resonate with darkwave and post-punk intellectual genealogies.
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