Handbook of Tyranny - Tapa dura

A highly sophisticated and genuinely thoughtful design.--Julian Rose "Bookforum " To spread Handbook of Tyranny in your lap and absorb the visual shock and textual impact of Deutinger's diagrams and terse analyses is to gaze upon a global condition. One benefit - we get to move beyond the noise of our own wall dramas and recognize that the movement and constraint of peoples is the main challenge presented to all territories.--Ron Slate "On the Seawall "

Every page of the book questions our current world of walls and fences, police tactics and prison cells, crowd control and refugee camps.The dry and factual style of storytelling through technical drawings is the graphic equivalent to bureaucratic rigidity born of laws and regulations. The level of detail depicted in the illustrations of the book mirror the repressive efforts taken by authorities around the globe.The twenty- rst century shows a general striving for an ever more regulated and protective society. Yet the scale of authoritarian intervention and their stealth design adds to the growing dif cultyof linking cause and effect. By bluntly showing the designs, Notebook of Tyranny gives a profound insight into the relationship between political power, territoriality, and systematic cruelties.