Accelerated modernity

, 125

‘Aesthetic regime’

, 50

Aetiology of Hysteria, The (Freud)

, 46–47

Affectivity

, 26–27

‘Afro-pessimism’

, 116

Algorithmic logic of black death

brutality, blackness and death in excess

, 117–121

disembodied black consciousness and ‘politics of refusal’

, 125–131

technologies of trauma and ‘repeat’ mode

, 123–125

theorizing hermeneutics of ‘Black’ horrific

, 121–123

‘Ambient racism’

, 101

American supremacy

, 43–44

Anti-Blackness

, 116–117

Architecture

, 138–139

Art of the Novel (Kundra)

, 20–21

Artefacts

, 7–8

Artificial intelligence (AI)

, 100–101

Atrocity photography

, 24–25

Attention-seeking digital economy

, 17

Banality of Black death

, 115–116

Banalization of hate

, 101–105

Belonging

, 46–47

Biopolitical dominance

, 77–78

Biopolitics

, 143–144

Black death

, 123–124

‘Black mysticism’

, 127–128

Black Skin, White Mask

, 117–118

Black spirit

, 127–128

‘Black’ horrific, theorizing hermeneutics of

, 121–123

‘Blackened’

, 136–137

Blackening of Grenfell in life and death

, 142–146

Blackness

, 115–117, 120–122

‘Breathtaking provincialism’

, 72

Brutality

, 117–121

‘Bystander culture’

, 101–102

Capitalism

, 30–31

Marxist critiques of

, 8

Chronotopes

, 146–147

‘Civil rights movement’

, 128–129

‘Click’ economy

, 28–29

Collective trauma

, 46–47

Colonial gaze

, 43–44

Colonial memory

, 5–6

Colonialism

, 9

Coloniality

, 9

of mediated suffering

, 66–67

and modes of knowing

, 74–77

of power

, 78–79, 83

of White superiority

, 9

Colonialization

, 18

Colonization

, 77–78

of digital platforms

, 101

Compartmentalization

, 101

Compassion fatigue

, 30–31

‘Confessional cultures’

, 55

Consciousness

, 18–19

Consumption of trauma

, 4–5

Contemporary trauma studies

, 20–21

‘Corporeal schemas’

, 18–19

Cosmology

, 9

Cosmopolitanism

, 66

Crises of suffering scholarship

, 67–69

‘Crisis ordinariness’

, 6

Cultural analysis of trauma

, 17

Cultural imperialism

, 69

Cultural Politics of Emotions, The

, 6–7

Cultural trauma

, 17, 48, 82

‘Culture of Sensibility’

, 20

‘Cyber racism’

, 94

Cyber violence

, 104

Cyberbullying

, 95–96

Cyberhate

, 93–94, 102

Cyberspace

, 93–94

De-historicization of trauma

, 67–68

Death

, 46

in excess

, 117–121

monument

, 146–150

‘Death-making’

, 143–144

Derridean hauntology

, 137

Destructivity

, 46

‘Detective paradigm’

, 75

Dialogism

, 146

Digital economy

, 57, 124–125

Digital modernity

, 94–95

Digital play cultures

, 106

Digital realm

, 129–130

Digital screen culture

, 123–124

Digital technology-facilitated violence (DTF violence)

, 94

Digital violence

, 105–106

‘Disaster marathons’

, 33–34

Disembodied black consciousness

, 125–131

Disequilibrium

, 46

Dislocated modernity

, 77–81

‘Disordered capitalism’

, 10

Distribution of trauma

, 57

Dominant emotion

, 94

‘Double consciousness’

, 74

Duplex Theory of Hate

, 98

‘Economies of blackness’

, 144

‘Editation’

, 53–54

Elongated coloniality

, 77–81

Emergency

, 26

‘Emotional hegemony’

, 1–2

Emotions

, 1–2, 8

‘Epistolary ethnography’

, 75–76

Equality

, 46

Eurocentric master narrative

, 6–11

Eurocentric Western rationality

, 9

Eurocentricity

, 9

Eurocentrism

, 10

‘Event-based model’

, 67–68

‘Face’

, 8

Facebook

, 95–96

Famine

, 70

‘Feathering’

, 104

‘Female culture industry’

, 23–24

Fetishization of mediated trauma

, 4

Fictional films

, 34

Film

, 21–22

‘Flesh witnessing’

, 29–30

‘Flocking’

, 104

Fraternity

, 46

Game literacy

, 105

Game play

, 54–55

Game-play economy

, 56

Gamergate scandal

, 101–102

‘Gamification’

, 105–106

of hate

, 105–106

Gaze

, 65–66

Genealogy of technological witnessing

, 18–26

General Aggression Model (GAM)

, 56

Global South

, 11, 65–66, 84–85

Globalization process

, 15–16

Governance

, 56

Great Indian Famine (1986–1987)

, 43–44

Grenfell

, 135–136, 138

blackened

, 136–137

blackening of Grenfell in life and death

, 142–146

iconography as ‘optical machinery’

, 138–142

necroaesthetics and death monument

, 146–150

Grenfell Action Group

, 136

Hate

and architecture of internet

, 96–101

banalization of

, 101–105

crimes

, 98

online

, 93–94

speech

, 95

Hate-laden behaviour

, 99

Hate-related activities

, 94

Hegemony of Western power relations

, 77–78

Heterochronicity

, 146–147

Hillsborough Stadium disaster (1989)

, 136

History in itself

, 32

Homo sacer

, 119

Human civilization

, 46–47

Human consciousness

, 28

Human rights

, 46–47

Human senses

, 26–27

Human-computer experience

, 105

Hyper-reality

, 54–55

Iconography as ‘optical machinery’

, 138–142

Ideologies

, 1–2

Image-sharing platforms

, 54–55

‘Imagination’

, 7–8

‘Immutable mobile’

, 34

Imperialism

, 18

In terrorem effect

, 95–96, 98

‘Information society’

, 28

“Interlocking” effect

, 78–79

‘Internationalization of conscience’

, 16–17

Internet

, 98–99

hate and architecture of

, 96–101

virality of

, 115–116

‘Interpellation’

, 1–2

Intimate public

, 23–24

Invention of Tradition, The

, 27

Journal of the Plague Year, A (Defoe)

, 20–21

‘Keyhole testimony’

, 20

‘Knowledge society’

, 28

LambdaMOO

, 106

Liberty

, 46

‘Liquid modernity’

, 15–16

Literary fiction

, 21–22

‘Loop’

, 123

Lynchings

, 73

Marxist critiques of capitalism

, 8

Mass media

, 5–6

Mass technologies

, 5

Massification

, 54–55

Material architectures

, 139–140

‘Media event’

, 27

Media technologies

, 8–9

‘Mediated misogyny’

, 94

Mediated suffering

, 69–71

‘Medicalized syllogistic structure’

, 4

Melancholia, Freud’s notion of

, 82

‘Metamorphosis’

, 96–97

‘Militarized masculinity’

, 106

Modern subjectivity

, 118

Modernity

, 1–2, 8–9, 16–17, 33–34, 55–56, 67–68

dislocated

, 77–81

‘Moral imagination’

, 16–17

Mortality

, 46

‘Narrative society’

, 34–35

National sentimentality

, 7–8

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

, 100–101

Naturalization of aggression

, 103

‘Necro-economics’

, 143–144

Necroaesthetics

, 146–150

‘Networked misogyny’

, 94

‘Never Again’ projects

, 23

New Iconography

, 140

‘Newness’

, 24

9/11 attacks

, 51–52, 83–84

Online economy

, 70–71

‘Ontological obscenity’

, 24–25

Ontology of Whiteness

, 116–117

Orientalism

, 10, 80, 82

Orientalism of suffering

coloniality and modes of knowing

, 74–77

crises of suffering scholarship

, 67–69

dislocated modernity and elongated coloniality

, 77–81

figure of abject other

, 71–74

mediated suffering and technologies of trauma

, 69–71

shifting axis of suffering

, 81–85

Orientalist production of Other

, 78–79

Other

, 10, 66

precariousness of

, 8

Othering

, 1–2, 9

Pain, trauma and

, 150

‘Pathological disposition’

, 46–47

Perpetual wounding

, 46

Photographic Iconography

, 140

Photographs of Agony

, 24–25, 29–30

Photography

, 138–139

Plague, The (Camus)

, 20–21

‘Platformed racism’

, 94

‘Politics of refusal’

, 125–131

Poor Laws in United Kingdom

, 144–145

‘Pornotropes’

, 9–10

‘Pornotroping’

, 118

Positionality

, 47–48, 69

Post-digital communion with trauma

, 53–56

Post-humanism

, 53–54

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

, 19–20, 32–33, 79, 95–96

Postcolonial Witnessing

, 67–68

Postmodern art

, 50

Precariousness of Others

, 8

Print capitalism

, 7–8

‘Prosthetic trauma’

, 32–33

Prosumer

, 54–55

Protruding

, 135–136

Public events

, 27

Quality of life

, 1–2

‘Queerness’

, 96–97

Racial capitalism

, 8

Racism

, 67–68, 119–120

Rationality

, 1–2

‘Rationalization of emotions’

, 44–45

Reddit

, 95–96

Regarding the Pain of Others

, 34

Rituals of trauma

, 27–28

‘Salvage paradigm’

, 75

‘Scar culture’

, 34

Screen cultures

, 136

Self-generation

, 9

‘Semiotic capitalism’

, 45

Sensorium of witnessing

, 21

‘Shadow archive’

, 43–44

‘Shareability’

, 6

Sharing of sociality

, 6–7

Sharing platforms, virtual witnessing to

, 51–53

‘Slave daguerreotypes’

, 76–77

Social change

, 28

Social Frameworks of Memory, The

, 33

Social justice

, 16–17

Social media

, 98–99

Social networking online

, 99–100

Social psychology of hate online

banalization of hate

, 101–105

digital violence and ‘gamification’ of hate

, 105–106

hate and architecture of internet

, 96–101

‘Social topography’

, 78–79

Sociality

, 6–7

Societal hate

, 104

Society of Spectacle

, 30–31

Socio-cultural contestation

, 17

Sociological theory, trauma in

, 48

‘Spatial logic’

, 148

Spectacular violence

, 52–53

Spectacularization

, 1–2

‘Spectatorial nature of sympathy’

, 44–45

Subjecthood

, 51

Suffering

, 65–66

crises of suffering scholarship

, 67–69

shifting axis of

, 81–85

Superstes

, 48–49

Supplemental violation

, 52–53

Sympathy, vision and the morality of

, 44–45

Technological mediation

, 47–48

Technological witnessing, genealogy of

, 18–26

Technologies of trauma

, 1–2, 6–7, 15–16, 25, 66–67

and ‘repeat’ mode

, 123–125

Betwixt spectacular and everyday

, 29–35

genealogy of technological witnessing

, 18–26

mediated suffering and

, 69–71

trauma and mediated memory as ‘event’

, 26–29

‘Technologies of violence’

, 47

Technologies of vision

, 9–10

Technologies of wounding

digital economy and distribution of trauma

, 57

post-digital communion with trauma

, 53–56

virtual witnessing to sharing platforms

, 51–53

wound, wounded and witnessing

, 43–45

wounding as residing in interstices of inarticulate

, 45–51

Technology

, 1–2, 8, 17–18, 20–21, 28–29, 56

Teletrauma

, 23–24

Televisual technologies

, 75–76

Temporal recombination online

, 125

Temporality of colonialism

, 9

‘Terrors’

, 16–17

Testimonials

, 22, 48–49, 54

Testimonio

, 22

Testis

, 48–49

Theorizing hermeneutics of ‘Black’ horrific

, 121–123

Titanic

, 18

Transcendental boundaries

, 16–17

Transfiguration of trauma

, 3–5

‘Transit lane’

, 16–17

Transmutation of trauma

, 1–2, 50

Trauma

, 1–3, 15–16, 18–19, 45

Betwixt spectacular and everyday

, 29–35

Eurocentric master narrative

, 6–11

and mediated memory as ‘event’

, 26–29

and pain

, 150

post-digital communion with

, 53–56

producing subject of

, 5–6

re-engineered

, 49

in sociological theory

, 48

technologies

, 30

transfiguration of

, 3–5

and violence

, 72–73

‘Trauma aesthetic’

, 1–2, 9–10

Trauma Culture

, 78–79

‘Trial by media’

, 8–9

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)

, 22–23

Truth commission

, 23

Twitter

, 95–96

User generated content (UGC)

, 54–55, 93–94, 123–124

Valorization of witness-centric orientations

, 21

‘Veracity gap’

, 43–44

Victimhood

, 10

Video-sharing platforms

, 54–55

Violence

, 54–55, 122–123

trauma and

, 72–73

Violent

, 123

Virality

, 116, 123–124

of internet

, 115–116

Virtual witnessing to sharing platforms

, 51–53

Visual domain

, 141

Visual media

, 75

Vulnerability

, 29–30, 46

Vulnerable Observer, The (Behar)

, 34–35

‘War on terror’

, 83–84, 148–149

Well-being

, 46–47

Western colonialism

, 47

Western imperialism

, 77–78

White Supremacy

, 73–74, 119–120

Whiteness

, 116–117

Witness

, 17–18

Witnessing

, 20, 28–30, 32, 43, 45, 48–49, 54, 69

Wound

, 43–45

Wounded

, 43–45

Woundedness

, 29–30

Wounding as residing in interstices of inarticulate

, 45–51

‘Writing trauma’

, 21