... on a trip he made to Afghanistan and Pakistan when he was twenty-two years old: An Afghanistan Picture Show: Or, How I Saved the World . I suggest that Vollmann's narrative persona, which he develops in Picture Show , is a reflexive representation of the American abroad as a well-intentioned failure...

... and the subsequent invasion and occupation of Afghanistan by a US-led coalition. The author also recounts the hidden history surrounding the first known drone attack in Afghanistan and the larger question of drone violence, which has remained invisible to mainstream audiences. © 2020 Duke University Press 2020...

..., but never before on thousands of civilians as the governing metaphors through which to come to terms with the attack. The spectacular military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq that followed Bush’s coming Duke University...

... Afghanistan in close collaboration with the video game and film industry. Such games hold out the promise of providing war experience by proxy, of generating experiential effects by virtual means. It is not at all clear, however, what the nature of this experience is. In other words, what happens...

... . Beckert Sven . 2014 . Empire of Cotton: A Global History . New York : Vintage . Dudziak Mary L. 2012 . War-Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Haviv Ron . 2002 . Afghanistan: The Road to Kabul . New York : de.Mo...

... since 9/11 that this argument is harder and harder to sustain. The war against the Tali- ban in Afghanistan and the ongoing war and ‘‘nation-building’’ project in Iraq suggest that the line between ‘‘Empire’’ and imperialism is thinner than Hardt from the back cover of the paperback edition...

.... Victor David Hanson, Between War and Peace: Lessons from Afghanistan to Iraq (New York: Random House, 2004), 61. 3. For neoconservative writings on the Middle East, see Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002); David Frum...

... such as Afghanistan. The second line of investigation also has clear instances: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funding, for example, of such things as human-machine­ interfaces or machine map- ping of human response to reading literature. The entire Digital Humani- ties project, which...

... Tactics . London : Angus and Robertson . Kaplan Fred . 2013 . “The End of the Age of Petraeus: The Rise and Fall of Counterinsurgency.” Foreign Affairs , January/February . www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/afghanistan/2013-01-01/end-age-petraeus . Lacheroy Charles . 1954...

.... Globalizing Afghanistan: Terrorism, War, and the Rhetoric of Nation Building. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. Kester, Grant. The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. Kirby, Vicki. Quantum Anthropologies: Life at Large...

...   ➢ the oil fields of northern africa and the lithium mines of afghanistan   ➢ the flood of black and brown people seeping between prison bars   ➢ the coke brothers controlling the flow through the holes in michael brown’s murder, i see:   ➢ the GMO CEO of mon-­san-­to   ➢ the gazans stripped...

...: ‘‘No one will be able to make sexist jokes about women drivers any more All women? The ‘‘women of Afghanistan’’ are coded somewhat differently. Given this gender-prominence, a feminist critical theory must repeat that expanding the war endlessly will not necessarily produce multiple-issue gender...

... to Afghanistan, where he focuses on the practice and poetics of journalism, militarism in the greater Middle East, and the politics of representation. His work has appeared in Media, War, and Conflict ; Applied Journalism and Media Studies ; Viewpoint Magazine ; Kyoto Journal ; and HAU: Journal...

.... Paradoxically, it has innumerable centers: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, with infinite possibilities of places and persons. With the institution of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, which gives the president authorization to indefinitely detain US citizens suspected of terrorism...

..., Cronenberg tends to favor explicitly Canadian or vaguely defined “North American” settings for his films—even so, the locales of Millbrook, Indiana, and Philadelphia in A History of Vio- lence were shot in Ontario). Eastern Promises extends the history of vio- lence to London, Russia, Afghanistan...

...: It will be Islam. In this process of addition, we find a dangerous mathematics, confused and potent. And while our president urges us to remember that Arab Americans are Americans, too, and that this is a war against terrorism, not Islam, the bombing and invasion of Afghanistan, with all its ‘‘collateral damage...

... Adorno, Theodor, 1 ambience, 1–229 passim Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Ambient Devices, 45 The, 7 ambulance, 83 advertising, 59 Andersen, Hans Christian, 2 Afghanistan, 5 anecdotes, 14 Ahn (daughter...

... by the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) of the Feminist Majority’s role in the war, but then pointing out its complicity in a middle-­class privilege that erases working-­class Afghan women without offering any account of these displaced women (TA , 6); (3) speaking of Muslim...

... of such a group, with its deft use of both military and media technology. Policy analysts regularly referred to Taliban rule in Afghanistan as “medieval,” despite being the result of Soviet and US training and proxy war fighting as well as subsequent power vacuums; some analysts even insisted that a historical...

... corporations because of the indigenous desire to get some benefit from their collective cultural production is to fall into a dangerous liberal formalism. Other topical urgencies are not much discussed. The index has no entries on Zionism or Afghanistan or Iraq. HIV/AIDS comes up...