Handbook of Tyranny – Expanded Edition

Handbook of Tyranny – Expanded Edition

Handbook of Tyranny portrays the routine cruelties of the twenty-first century through a series of detailed non-fictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence – they reflect day-to-day implementation of laws and regulations around the globe.

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-first 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 difficulty of linking cause and effect. Handbook of Tyranny gives a profound insight into the relationship between political power, territoriality and systematic cruelties.

Special thanks to Brendan McGetrick’s for giving the permission to feature his work on Death Penalties and his great essay “A Vast Conspiracy” and Stefanos Filippas for his perseverant work on the illustrations. Most of the illustrations in this book have been previously published in Mark Magazine. Many thanks for the support by the creative industries fund NL, Land Salzburg and the Federal Chancellery of Austria as well as de Architekten Cie., Renny Ramakers and Monique Leenders.

Author(s): Theo Deutinger

With an essay by Brendan McGetrick

Design: Theo Deutinger

21 × 29,7 cm, 8 ¼ × 11 ¾ in

172 pages, 987 illustrations

hardback

2023, 978-3-03778-719-9, English

Brendan McGetrick http://www.brendanmcgetrick.com/anything/
Lars Müller Publishers https://www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/