Humans and Demons: Dissecting Evil in Evil Times. steirischer herbst ’23 (Reader) edited by Ekaterina Degot and David Riff history when there were still blank

when there were still blank spaces on maps of the world

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being from Hong Kong means constantly pondering what we hold onto and carry as we venture from one place to another

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Humans and Demons: Dissecting Evil in Evil Times. steirischer herbst ’23 (Reader) edited by Ekaterina Degot and David Riff history when there were still blankRecently, the talk of crises has been replaced by the discourse of evil. The crimes and human tragedies in Ukraine or Israel and Palestine have led us to identify monstrous, singular evils, yet we forget that evil lives among us. Even in our polarised world, there are vast moral gray zones, which can be weaponized by authoritarian forces. Humans and Demons, the 2023 edition of steirischer herbst, explored how people negotiate such gray zones, how evil