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When I first discovered that notorious serial killer Ian Brady (the Moors Murderer) had written a book from his prison cell offering an insight into the phenomenon of serial killing and its analysis, I thought this can offer a fresh insight into the mind, motive and methodology of a serial killer, through the lens of a serial killer himself. The book within itself holds so much room for critical analysis and interpretation, it is incredibly challenging to pinpoint one particular finding. This blog aims to explore in smaller parts, numerous findings throughout the book- “Gates of Janus”. The book is broken into three significant chapters. The first chapter explores the contextualisation and social construction of serial murder with ties to morality, hedonistic nihilism and the social constriction of murder, and the ways in which the phenomenon of murder has been commodified and romanticised, this is explored through the lens of the media, and produces a cultural criminological narrati...

Christopher Coker is Professor of International relations at the London School of Economics. In 2008 he published his book- ‘ ethics and war in the twenty first century’. This book provides a very original and important narrative towards asking questions such as- why do states go to war? Who are the threats against states? And how in the liberalisation of society, states collectively justify their actions, and provide moral agency? The biggest point which I have discovered through reading ethics and war in the twenty first century, is the ways in which technological advancements have perpetuated anonymous killings, on the battle field, which within its own structures has changed and to attempt to explore the statement that since the rise of industrialisation and technology, the battlespace has changed, and thus decreased moral agency and increased anonymous killings. This blog aims to explore the factors which have made this statement become true, and to explore the historical, ...