The Hanging Man: Death, indeterminacy and the event

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Notes

¹Examples of these mediated representations of death include Henry Singer's 9/11: The falling man (2006) and Robert Capa's photograph ‘Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936’, the veracity of which was questioned by Phillip Knightley (1975).

²The notion of suicide as a discursive act is relatively uncommon in sociological studies, but see Knizek (2007).

³For discussion of suffering, enlightenment and liberation in Buddhism, see Burton 2004.

⁴On theatre space as uncanny, see Taylor 2006.

⁵Franco B's performances include: Oh Lover Boy (2001), I Miss You (2003) and Still Life (2005).