"Serial killing has its place in a public culture in which addictive violence has
become not merely a collective spectacle but one of the crucial sites where private
desire and public space cross. The convening of the public around scenes of
violence-the rushing to the scene of the accident, the milling around the point
of impact-has come to make up a wound culture: the public fascination with torn
and opened bodies and torn and opened persons, a collective gathering around
shock, trauma, and the wound. "
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