...Charles Bernstein MEMORANDA TO: boundary 2 readership FROM: boundary 2 editors and contributors DATE: (varies) RE: 9/11/01 Charles Bernstein (9/11/01) It’s 8:23 in New York What I can’t describe is how beautiful the day is in New York; clear skies, visibility all the way...

...William V. Spanos Duke University Press 2003 y 2 / 30:3 / sheet 33 of 252 6943 boundar A Rumor of War: 9/11 and the Forgetting of the Vietnam War William V. Spanos...

...Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 2004 Terror: A Speech After 9-11 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 1 These ruminations arose in response to America’s war on terrorism.1 I started from the conviction...

...Donald E. Pease Duke University Press 2006 9/11: When Was ‘‘American Studies After the New Americanists Donald E. Pease Following the ruptural events that took place on September 11, 2001, the Bush administration invoked 9/11...

...Lee Konstantinou This essay investigates the common charge that contemporary US fiction and the literature of 9/11 have failed to meaningfully engage with the world. While it is true that American fiction has become increasingly insular and that the New York City-based publishing industry...

... to definitive meanings and exact differences. The more open conventions of theory present a better model for this task of description and analysis. A historical account of the unstable associations of terror reveals how limiting and how aggressively polemical the post-9/11 anglophone attributions of terror have...

...David Simpson This essay argues that the recourse to terror as the defining term of the 9/11 experience is at odds with the rhetorical choices made by Edmund Burke in his writings on the French Revolution, as well as by various Cold War theorists in the 1950s. Burke regarded terror...

... circulates in a global era where we are shown so much but see so little represents a crucial political turn for Cronenberg. Analyzing this turn invites consideration, through a particularly ambitious case, of how commercial narrative cinema might imagine globalized geopolitics after 9/11. These two films...

...Matthew Suazo By expanding the frame of Paul Gilroy's post-9/11 intervention in Postcolonial Melancholia to include post–Hurricane Katrina discourse, this essay aims to more specifically elaborate the present moment—Gilroy's “postcolonial present”—as a space and time in which to combat...

... of the '90s has to say about globalization and indigenous and immigrant rights through its insistent turn against standard English. And it concludes by looking briefly beyond the '90s at the rise of lyric and plain speech poetries after the U.S. 9/11, which in turn are contested by the turn to appropriation...

... security society in general. In recent years, Spanos has emphasized the importance of Giorgio Agamben’s meditations on the “state of exception,” particularly in relation to the suspension of the political (in Jacques Rancière’s sense of the term) after 9/11. Emphasizing Agamben’s Heideggerian lineage has...

...Benjamin Lozano What is the nature of republican power in a state of emergency? This question has shadowed much of the legal and political discourse in the United States in the aftermath of the traumatic event of 9/11 and subsequent prosecution of the war on terror. Eric Posner and Adrian...

... This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. drone unmanned aerial vehicle Afghanistan Taliban 9/11 Death from Above: An Afghan Perspective on the US Drone War; An Interview with Emran Feroz Sina Rahmani SR: At the outset...

... Enduring Justice, Operation Iraqi Freedom—that authorized the Bush administration’s state of emergency. Specifically, the state’s symbolic response to 9/11 replaced Virgin Land Americans have known wars, but for the past 136...

... begin, Žižek cautioned, with “the battle for what this victory will effec- tively mean, especially within the context of two other much more ominous signs of history: 9/11 and the financial meltdown.”1 Although it has taken place within the terrain Žižek specified—9/11 and the global...

... of modernity that fatefully articulate Japan—lonely or not—with every other country in the world, and most fatefully with the United States. The incomparable horror of 9/11 brought up, almost immediately, a series of associations that would firmly locate it in a matrix of comparativity...

... have already been present during the Clinton years, and therefore one that it is not clear that the Democrats can address, or are addressing, any better than the right-wing coalition assembled by Bush in the wake of 9/11? If the answer is yes or maybe, then Bush and his regime are themselves...

... was commemorated. Using 9/11 as an especially vivid example, Behdad demonstrates how the state’s management of its territorial borders played a foundational role in how the nation imagines itself and in how the state legitimates the techniques of coercion and disci- pline that engender...

...’” (2006: 185). See Peterson 2012: “Why does this poetry [‘The Ballad of the Girly Man’] feel so different from Bernstein’s earlier writing, yet so timely? What is it about the old form of multi-voiced­ Brechtian cri- tique that seems no longer tenable after 9/11 for this poet?” (18). Peterson’s...

... depends is not an anomaly. It is the necessary adaptation of an ontopolitical perspective— American exceptionalism—that is chronologically simultaneous with the birth of the idea of America and the American national identity. Attending to these origins of Huntington’s post-9/11 discourse...