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Evil Without Theatre: Essays and Poems on Power, Truth and the Human Condition
Paperback
Series: The Hybrid Works
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 6 2025
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Evil Without Theatre: Essays and Poems on Power, Truth, and the Human Condition is a hybrid of poetry and philosophy about everyday complicity-how harm survives without villains or spectacle.
Drawing on existentialism (Sartre, Camus), political philosophy (Arendt), and media theory (Debord), it examines bureaucracy, algorithms, obedience, professional tone, energy pricing, the cost-of-living crisis, apology culture and redemption as brand.Across five parts - Everyday Masquerades, The Spectacle Withdrawn, Machinery of Convenience, Refusal of Redemption, and Intimacies of Evasion - the book pairs lyrical pieces with analytic essays. You'll find office scripts that turn refusal into service, minutes without meaningful verbs, queues that cancel the future, windfalls called prudence, apologies that demand gratitude and domestic evasions dressed as kindness. The argument is simple: put subjects back in sentences. Name who decided, who benefits, who pays and when.
This is for readers of contemporary poetry, philosophy of everyday life, political theory, and cultural criticism - anyone tired of euphemism and hungry for clarity, accountability, and exact language. If you're searching for existential essays, modern poetry about power, banality of evil, bureaucracy, algorithms, or cost of living, this book meets you where you live: in the untheatrical hours where decisions are made.
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