Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: How Does Violence Perform? -- Chapter 1: Easy to Be Hard: Conservatism and Violence -- Chapter 2: Violence without Agency -- Chapter 3: Performing Monstrous Violence: Aileen Wuornos, Murder, Abuse, and Exploitation -- Chapter 4: On the Uses of Dogs: Abu Ghraib and the American Soul -- Chapter 5: Passionate Performance: 26/11, Mumbai -- Chapter 6: Ordinary Violence on an Extraordinary Stage: Incidents on the Sector Border in Postwar Berlin -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.