ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in preceding chapters of this book. The book argues that texts that narrativise utilitarian arguments for torture present audiences with material justifications of torture, and that these texts have significant effects in actual lived violent relations in order to reflect multidisciplinary nature of torture debate. The exposure of the concentrationary nature of torture is one coordinate in this argument, as is a recognition of the humanity of the participants in torture. For the field of intelligibility in which torture is made comprehensible is by no means an uncontested political space: cultural representations, whether literary, filmic, dramatic, or popular cultural, certainly have potential to expose torture as an atrocity and to challenge its justification and normalisation. The book claims that cultural representations and political narratives are inseparably interpenetrated, and that they often establish a way of knowing the world that fundamentally misrepresents it in order to justify the crime of torture.
