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From the Risk Society to Thana Capitalism: Dialogues About Genocide

From the Risk Society to Thana Capitalism: Dialogues About Genocide

Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje
Copyright: © 2021 |Volume: 10 |Issue: 3 |Pages: 11
ISSN: 2160-9624|EISSN: 2160-9632|EISBN13: 9781799862703|DOI: 10.4018/IJRCM.2021070105
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Korstanje, Maximiliano Emanuel. "From the Risk Society to Thana Capitalism: Dialogues About Genocide." IJRCM vol.10, no.3 2021: pp.84-94. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJRCM.2021070105

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Korstanje, M. E. (2021). From the Risk Society to Thana Capitalism: Dialogues About Genocide. International Journal of Risk and Contingency Management (IJRCM), 10(3), 84-94. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJRCM.2021070105

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Korstanje, Maximiliano Emanuel. "From the Risk Society to Thana Capitalism: Dialogues About Genocide," International Journal of Risk and Contingency Management (IJRCM) 10, no.3: 84-94. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJRCM.2021070105

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Abstract

The current paper focused on the spectatularization of disasters as the main commodity thana capitalism exchanges. The discussion around the crimes against mankind perpetrated by Nazis in the clandestine concentration camps opened the doors towards new insights respecting the roots of thana capitalism. Nazis violated human rights secreting their crimes in a moment of the world where millions certainly died. Today´s philosophers are shocked to see how Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was the sanctuary of the horrors of the Second World War, sets the pace to a new allegory, intended to entertain thousands of tourists, many of them unfamiliar with these events. As a highly-demanded tourist destination, Auschwitz evinces the change of new postmodern ethics that commoditizes the other´s loss as a criterion of entertainment. The example of terrorism shows one of the paradoxes of thana capitalism simply because media covers and disseminates the cruelties of attacks to gain further subscribers and investors while terrorism finds a fertile ground to penetrate the homes of a wider audience.

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