#Corpora Delicti

[hsincerely]

BOOKS READ IN 2024: corpora delicti by manna francis

Tarin’s eyes narrowed, putting wrinkles in his baby skin, then he nodded slowly. “I did say I wanted you to be honest. And thank you for protecting us. I am grateful.” The words had a surprising amount of sincerity. Toreth took a step back. “I don’t give a fuck. Anything I’ve done, I did for Warrick.”

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[schwarzstein]

#corpora delicti #music

[nicklloydnow]

“The moment has come to make good a promise I gave. I must substantiate why, according to my firm conviction, torture was the essence of National Socialism - more accurately stated, why it was precisely in torture that the Third Reich materialized in all the density of its being. That torture was, and is, practiced elsewhere has already been dealt with. Certainly. In Vietnam since 1964. Algeria 1957. Russia probably between 1919 and 1953. In Hungary in 1919 the Whites and the Reds tortured. There was torture in Spanish prisons by the Falangists as well as the Republicans. Torturers were at work in the semifascist Eastern European states of the period between the two World Wars, in Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia. Torture was no invention of National Socialism. But it was its apotheosis. The Hitler vassal did not yet achieve his full identity if he was merely as quick as a weasel, tough as leather, hard as Krupp steel. No Golden Party Badge made of him a fully valid representative of the Führer and his ideology, nor did any Blood Order or Iron Cross. He had to torture, destroy, in order to be great in bearing the suffering of others. He had to be capable of handling torture instruments, so that Himmler would assure him his Certificate of Maturity in History; later generations would admire him for having obliterated his feelings of mercy.

Again I hear indignant objection being raised, hear it said that not Hitler embodied torture, but rather something unclear, "totalitarianism." I hear especially the example of Communism being shouted at me. And didn't I myself just say that in the Soviet Union torture was practiced for thirty-four years? And did not already Arthur Koestler . . . ? Oh yes, I know, I know. It is impossible to discuss here in detail the political "Operation Bewilderment" of the postwar period, which defined Communism and National Socialism for us as two not even very different manifestations of one and the same thing. Until it came out of our ears, Hitler and Stalin, Auschwitz, Siberia, the Warsaw Ghetto Wall and the Berlin Ulbricht-Wall were named together, like Goethe and Schiller, Klopstock and Wieland. As a hint, allow me to repeat here in my own name and at the risk of being denounced what Thomas Mann once said in a much attacked interview: namely, that no matter how terrible Communism may at times appear, it still symbolizes an idea of man, whereas Hitler-Fascism was not an idea at all, but depravity. Finally, it is undeniable that Communism could de-Stalinize itself and that today in the Soviet sphere of influence, if we can place trust in concurring reports, torture is no longer practiced. In Hungary a Party First Secretary can preside who was himself once the victim of Stalinist torture. But who is really able to imagine a de-Hitlerized National Socialism and, as a leading politician of a newly ordered Europe, a Röhm follower who in those days had been dragged through torture? No one can imagine it. It would have been impossible. For National Socialism - which, to be sure, could not claim a single idea, but did possess a whole arsenal of confused, crackbrained notions - was the only political system of this century that up to this point had not only practiced the rule of the antiman, as had other Red and White terror regimes also, but had expressly established it as a principle. It hated the word "humanity" like the pious man hates sin, and that is why it spoke of "sentimental humanitarianism." It exterminated and enslaved. This is evidenced not only by the corpora delicti, but also by a sufficient number of theoretical confrmations. The Nazis tortured, as did others, because by means of torture they wanted to obtain information important for national policy. But in addition they tortured with the good conscience of depravity. They martyred their prisoners for definite purposes, which in each instance were exactly specified. Above all, however, they tortured because they were torturers. They placed torture in their service. But even more fervently they were its servants.” - Jean Améry, ‘At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities’ (1966) [pages 30, 31]

#amery #améry #jean amery #jean améry #at the mind’s limits #third reich #wwii #holocaust #torture #fascism #hitler #mengele

[mannafrancis]

Corpora Delicti ebook

The Corpora Delicti ebook is now for sale on Kindle.  I don’t know which other ebook retailers it’s show up in yet, but if it isn’t available yet then it should become available as they process it through their systems.

#the administration series #corpora delicti #ebook

[paramorin]

"Scream all you want," Toreth breathed right against his ear. "I'll make sure no one can hear you, no matter how loud you are." [...] "My ear's ringing," Toreth said. "Sorry." Warrick hadn't even heard himself. "You did say 'scream all you want.'"

Playing with fantasies.

Corpora Delicti by Manna Francis, chapter 21

#Toreth #Warrick #book quotes #corpora delicti #Manna Francis #The administration series

[tehanu1979]

So, finished rereading Corpora Delicti. @coinoperatedthings, @toreth, guys, we read two different books (which is fine really, and just goes to show how rich they are I suppose). I saw Toreth, not rubbing Warrick's face in his promiscuity, or being unusually cruel about Kate's death, but rather rising to the heights of his interpersonal / relationship skills over Kate. Fearing selfishly for his own safety, sure, but going out of his mind with fear for Warrick. Controlling the hurt, anger and betrayal, not running or exploding when he found Warrick had lied to him, or worked around him with "fucking Carnac". Once more confronting his desperate, crippling need of Warrick, in passing this time, but also confronting that difference between himself and the rest of humanity which means Warrick could apparently expect Carnac to understand, but didn't trust him to get it. Getting it even so, cracking Warrick's real problem admirably accurately even though Warrick had refused to talk about it in detail and then taking a calculated risk with "Sable" to solve Warrick's problem and keep him safe. Actually picking the most reasonable way to do that. Understanding Warrick enough to know how to use elements of the game (and threats of torture to relative innocents) to, again, keep him safe. Repeatedly taking into account Warrick's feelings about interrogation enough to influence their interactions. Even the bed was in response to a throw-away wish Warrick had expressed, a case of paying attention enough to pick a genuinely thoughtful gift. The whole bet-before-the-dinner thing was a masterpiece of demonstrating he knew Warrick well enough to pick the difficulty level just right. Showing off, basically, how well he can adjust to the world where everybody has a weird sixth sense he lacks, or at least everybody claims so, and assumes everybody else to have it.

I know he's a right bastard and maybe I do expect too little of him, but he did well in this book in the sense of treating Warrick as a person rather than just a toy. I even swallowed his reasoning about ordering those section Ns, because horrible as they were, the alternative would have only been some other suitably medieval torture. It's not that shift from torture to rape that scared me stupid, but from interrogating the actual suspect to interrogating their families. But that wasn't completely new either. Ok he should have had more brains about Sara and it will probably come back to bite him in the jewels, but I can't see that as something "Warrick should make him pay for". Or if he "dumped his ass" for it (no eloping with Carnac please, please), I don't think Toreth would have understood what that was for. They did have a rule they agreed to about not bringing fucks to the flat, but it doesn't sound serious enough for a good deal breaker to me.

Warrick again thought and said (to De Nijs) he couldn't ask Toreth to stop sleeping around, but, Word of God about her plans for them aside, that's a little unfair of him (so long as he cares). He had agreed to it before and now it apparently became what, a grudge he wouldn't even talk about? Why should Toreth respond to a problem or renegotiate the relationship if it doesn't come up explicitly? I know he's clever, but that's one level of speculating about other people's feelings too many. Although he did manage so well with the Kate-Tarin-Sable conundrum. Good boy. But it's Warrick's call to be clear about what he wants, and about Kate he underestimated him.

Sigh. This book is amazing though. I love how Psychoprogramming re-emerges. And Toreth's interactions with Turnbull. And there's a microscopic flashback to Warrick and Carnac's thing many years ago (which apparently ended with "Keir" saying "Jean-Baptiste" was obnoxious? <3) Now I want a story about that. And another minute glimpse into Asher and Greg's sex life, apparently, with the bottle of oil thing. And isn't Catherine Turnbull a former socioanalyst somehow? Carnac's third renegade from Prodigal maybe? Too many joys to list.

#Manna Francis #Corpora Delicti #dom toretto #the administration series

[designasresearch]

CORPORA DELICTI, MAGMA ET PRINCIPES, MANSLAB, EPFL

#Vimeo #marcobakker #epfl #corporadelicti #magmaetprincipes #manslab #alexandreblanc #dieterdietz-ineslamuniÈre #christophevangerrewey #nicolabraghieri #philippschaerer #harrygugger #kerstengeers #lucaortelli #christianinderbitzin #martinfrÖhlich #leentjewallisergarrels #paulineseigneur

[sauropoda]

Alternate book covers for the latest installments in Manna Francis’ Administration series! Blood & Circuses and Corpora Delicti. I’m reading Blood & Circuses now and looking forward to Corpora Delicti next. 

(A continuation of this series I started a few years ago. Basically, these books are epic but I’ve never felt like the covers did them justice, so I’ve been making my own, using some of my photography from my trip to China.)

If you’ve never read these books, I would DEFINITELY recommend checking them out. They’re pretty dark, but if you like that sort of thing (dystopian sci-fi, political intrigue, mysteries, gayness...), there’s really nothing else like this series out there, and I love them so much. 

P.S. If you’re curious, here are some alternate covers to these alternate covers. Basically, my first attempt, which I didn’t like as much as the two above, but still pretty.

#the administration #manna francis #book covers #book recs #my edits #mine

[aturinfortheworse]

Toreth: Are you making people into food?

The director, who just wants his beautiful new factory and was not prepared for this: Why....... why would you ask me that?

#tas #corpora delicti spoilers #administration spoilers #tas spoilers #YAY FOR MY FAVOURITE NARRATIVE THEME #I'll take it in whatever form i can get it

[topdayinfobreakingnews-blog]

Uni Graz: Neuer Standort für historisches Kriminalmuseum

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Uni Graz: Neuer Standort für historisches Kriminalmuseum

Betrug, Raub, Totschlag, Mord: Der Grazer Untersuchungsrichter Hans Gross (1847 – 1915) war überzeugt, dass bei der Verbrechensklärung neben Zeugen auch Dinge als Beweise heranzuziehen sind. An der Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert hat er Corpora Delicti und Objekte gesammelt, die angehenden Juristen als Lehrmaterial dienen sollten. Die Uni Graz präsentiert die Sammlung in neuem Glanz.

Wer sich mit der Kriminalistik und ihrer Geschichte befasst, stößt unweigerlich auf Hans Gross. Der Grazer Jurist, der im Jahr 1912 an der Universität seiner Heimatstadt das weltweit erste “Kriminalistische Institut” gegründet hat, zählt zu den “Gründervätern” der Kriminologie. Schon 1893 hatte er mit dem “Handbuch für Untersuchungsrichter” das erste kriminologische Lehrbuch überhaupt verfasst. Im Jahr 1905 wurde er an der Universität Graz zum Professor für Strafrecht berufen.

1896 gründete der Untersuchungsrichter seine Sammlung aus “Corpora Delicti” am Landesgericht für Strafsachen” in Graz, schilderte Kurator Christian Bachhiesl am Dienstag beim Rundgang durch das nunmehr neu eingerichtete Museum unweit des Uni-Hauptgebäudes. Diese Lehrmittelsammlung ermöglichte Studenten, Juristen und Kriminalbeamten eine anschauliche Ausbildung.

Neben Hieb-, Stich- und Schusswaffen, Projektilen, Giftstoffen und Gipsabdrücken waren und sind in der Sammlung u.a. tierische und menschliche Präparate wie zertrümmerte Knochen zu sehen. Möglich wurde das, weil zu Gross’ Amtszeit ein Erlass dafür sorgte, dass alle Gerichte der Habsburger-Monarchie interessante Materialien nach Graz zu übersenden hatten. Heute gibt die abgeschlossene historische Sammlung Auskunft zur Entwicklung der Kriminaltechnik und Verbrechensaufklärung, zur Technikgeschichte, aber auch die Mentalitätsgeschichte spiegle sich darin wieder, wie der Kurator hervorhob.

Das wohl hervorstechendste und bekannteste Objekt ist der sogenannte Tatortkoffer. Der von Gross entwickelte Koffer umfasst alle wesentlichen Hilfen, damit der Weg im polizeilichen Ermittlungsverfahren so leicht wie möglich von der Tat zum Täter führt. Noch heute steht er im Mittelpunkt der Ausstellung, die nun am neuen Standort in der Grazer Heinrichstraße eröffnet wurde. Der alte Standort im Keller der Uni am Universitätsplatz musste vor vier Jahren geschlossen werden, weil Feuchtigkeit und Schimmelbefall der Objekte eine Restaurierung und Verlagerung der Objekte notwendig gemacht hatten.

Zu den rund 100 Utensilien im Koffer gehören neben einem Zirkel, um kleine Gegenstände messen zu können, einem Maßstab, Siegellack und einer kleinen Bürste auch ein Paar Strümpfe: für den Fall, dass es während der Untersuchung zu regnen beginnt und die Füße des Ermittlers nass werden.

Von Gross’ Nachfolgern wurden in Graz noch über mehr als ein halbes Jahrhundert auch Fotografien und Objekte als Schulungsmaterial gesammelt. Heute umfasst die Sammlung rund 2.000 Objekte und sie ist auch digital abrufbar, wie Museumsleiter Nikolaus Reisinger schilderte. Der Bogen der nunmehr in zwei Räumen auf rund 50 Quadratmetern präsentierten Objekte reicht von Brandrelikten über Waffen und zu Leichenbehältnissen umfunktionierte Säulenstümpfe, Schilderungen und Fotos von Leichenverstecken, gefälschten Dokumenten und manipulierten Würfeln, bis hin zu als Gehstock getarnten Waffen und den dazugehörenden Strafakten. “Die Sammlung umfasst das Zehnfache von dem was wir herzeigen können”, so Kurator Bachhiesl.

[hsincerely]

why are they so soft for each other? :(

#val toreth #keir warrick #corpora delicti #the administration #the administration liveblog

[mannafrancis]

Corpora Delicti paperback sale

Casperian are having a Black Friday week sale for paperback copies of Corpora Delicti.  Starting now, it's $9.99 direct from Casperian only.  The reduced price should show up when the book is in the cart. (The offer is for US domestic orders only, I'm afraid).

#the administration series #paperback #corpora delicti

[paramorin]

She sniffed briskly

“Anyway, it made me think about, well, everything that’s happened.”

“Ah, I see. That happens to all of us, my dear.” He put his arm around her shoulders and gave her a comforting squeeze [...] "Although," Kel added, "I have to say, I'd never believed anyone would ever get teary-eyed over Tom Hepburn."

Dead Paras get grace they've never earned and wouldn't have gotten in life.

Corpora Delicti by manna Francis, chap. 25

#Kel #Para Investigator #Minor characters Monday #Sara Lovelady #Tom Hebpurn #corpora delicti #Manna Francis #The administration series

[tehanu1979]

re Toreth being his usual FUCKING self in Corpora Delicti

Ok @coinoperatedthings, I'm not holding my breath until they are monogamous or waiting for anything else cloyingly sweet, and of course one can't argue with the author's word, in a sense. But he has already changed so much. Somewhere in Control Warrick tried to imagine them living together in the future, maybe, thought something like "maybe in 10 years" and still shuddered. Then book 6 happened, and they ended up living together much sooner. With all the perturbations that led to. On the way, Toreth got more discreet as you said about his tomcatty ways, then on occasion swung back. Had at least one bet with himself about not needing to sleep around, with poor results, but at least the idea occured to him. As early as book 3 occasionally found himself willing not to prowl, to his surprise, because he had Warrick to hand, the same thing Warrick talks about to De Nijs at the beginning of Corpora Delicti. Just got older and little less constantly horny, inevitably. Formed new habits.

And speaking of rereading Corpora Delicti, in chapter 3, "Sometimes he wondered how the hell his life had become so fucking domestic, and what else might be waiting around the corner to blackjack him." Sounds like a foreshadowing of more change, and maybe not of the events of later in book 9 itself, which felt temporary (?), although sure, everything falling apart is change too? But in that context there what he feared was more domesticity and related things. I have some crazy ideas about that, actually, Depends on what disasters befall whom when, but imagine... ok, imagine Warrick taking care of Valeria for a while. Hurts, doesn’t it. But oh, it would be beautiful.

Anyway I mean he can learn new tricks, it's the question of which ones. Going exclusive is probably not even the "trick" they need most? It does keep coming up that he thinks Warrick is the best, and for that conclusion, a wider sample is essential. Warrick is clearly less ok with that than he thought he would be (can’t wait to see what other light the book will throw on that that I have forgotten), but does it hurt him enough to outweigh the good things? That point about Toreth’s random fucks meaning nothing to him feels valid to me, for what it’s worth... ok that makes the Sara Incident all the more of a problem.

I think he can imagine Warrick's POV rather well when he tries, including Warrick’s emotions, he just doesn't do that spontaneously the way normal people do. Depending on how much he values Warrick ("Consider carefully, Para-investigator", as Howes said in Mind Fuck, about other things), he should think about making it a regular habit to mentally model Warrick's opinions and their practical implications. He may not have the reflex of seeing other people as people, but it's a learnable mental habit, a pop-up window in the brain, and it should be easier to start with the one person that makes him happiest. The way you train yourself to check your watch in order to be able to tell dreaming from waking.

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#Manna Francis #Corpora Delicti #Toreth #the administration series #Warrick

[sauropoda]

Alternate covers to my alternate covers, haha! This was my first attempt, which I didn’t like quite as much, but they’re still kinda cool-looking so I thought I’d share.

Blood & Circuses and Corpora Delicti from the Administration Series by Manna Francis.

#manna francis #the administration #book covers #mine #my edits #outtakes

[paramorin]

Carnac's motives had been... if not impeccable, at least excellent diabolical paving material

Corpora Delicti

#corpora delicti #manna francis #the administration series #Carnac #Minor characters Monday