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Culture Features
Hard Knox: how self-injury as entertainment captured our imaginations
A new book explores the surprising and previously unexplored territory of self-injury in culture and entertainment. In this extract from ‘Which as You Know Means Violence’, art critic Philippa Snow discusses the adolescent, self-destructive harm of Jackass’s Johnny Knoxville, alongside writer Hunter S. Thompson and filmmaker John Waters