{"product_id":"traumatized-the-new-politics-of-public-suffering","title":"Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow trauma became a weapon in the culture wars, by the acclaimed author of Virtue Hoarders\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when an idea born of genuine suffering is weaponized as a tool of social control? Traumatized is the story of how shell shock became PTSD, how Oprah turned pain into profit, and how “authenticity” became the ultimate brand. It is a history of surveillance cap­italism’s greatest coup: convincing us that wounds define us and that accom­modating each other’s trauma is more important than challenging the powerful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatherine Liu delivers an unflinching diagnosis of our current crisis, rooted as it is in the collapse of liberal politics, the ascendance of performance fragil­ity, and the rise of emotional display as a surrogate for political action. Sharp, provocative, and urgently necessary, Traumatized argues that we must re­ject a politics of permanent victimhood since it destroys solidarity and leaves us defenseless against the systems that cause real harm.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67714150793261,"sku":"9781804296745","price":37.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0374\/0001\/8989\/files\/9781804296745.jpg?v=1792623908","url":"https:\/\/shop.redflag.org.au\/products\/traumatized-the-new-politics-of-public-suffering","provider":"Red Flag Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}