...Daniel T. O'Hara Duke University Press 2007 “The Cry of Its Occasion”: On the Subject of Truth; or, The Terror in Global Terrorism Daniel T. O’Hara My essay will skirt the edges of literature. For my primary concern...

...David Simpson The vocabulary of fear-terror has been confused and confusing throughout its expression in the classical and modern languages, whether in literature, in aesthetics, or in political science. As such, it is unlikely ever to be tamed by the rigors of philosophy, with its aspiration...

... . 2014 . “West of Eden.” Tamkang Review 45 , no. 1 : 1 – 18 . Militarizing Feeling: What Does It Mean to Fight a “War on Terror”? Samuel Weber 1. An Elusive but Necessary Approach: The Question of “Violence...

...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...

...Daniel T. O'Hara Duke University Press 2006 Bringing Out the Terror: James Purdy and the Culture of Vision Daniel T. O’Hara Toward a Poetics of Terror My aim in this essay, beyond attempting to read...

...Luke Gibbons Duke University Press 2004 Ireland, America, and Gothic Memory: Transatlantic Terror in the Early Republic Luke Gibbons For a people who made much of their ‘‘newnesstheir potential, freedom, and innocence...

...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...

...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...

...Julian Bourg Beginning in the 1970s, terrorism became an object of contested expert knowledge. Fears over this moralized and loosely defined phenomenon emerged at the very moment that Western states achieved a certain monopoly over legitimate political violence. This politico-epistemological...

..., historical process of the erasure of history itself, culminating in a disruption or blockage of critical thinking, in which particular fictions (the “war on terror,” for example), through repeated and widespread use in our major institutions (schools, media, government, and political parties), substitute...

... on Terror” into the organic truth of life itself. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 climate change security state global security ecosecurity American sublime Rethinking the Society of the Spectacle: Natural Security, the Coming Ecologies of War, and the Critical Inquiry of William V...

...Tamara Lea Spira This essay traces the Zionist conversion of iconic revolutionary folk singer Mercedes Sosa to theorize the shifting forms of racial empire in the movement from the Dirty War to the War on Terror. I read Sosa’s story as emblematic of the thwarted revolutionary dreams of the late...

... and that the so-called war on terror had eerily revived. When she disallowed Cold War ideology control over representations of Home ’s characters, actions, and events, Morrison recast the Korean War as the Cold War’s uncanny Other that exposed readers to an ongoing settler-colonial war being waged within 1950s US...

...) contexts. It also allows readers to question Arendt's view of the role that suffering and poverty ought to play in moments of revolution and to scrutinize her thesis that wherever a solution to the “social” question was sought by “political” means it has led to terror and violence, with the notion...

... hate white men terror Reference Arendt Hannah . 2004 . The Origins of Totalitarianism . New York : Shocken Books . Bogle Donald . 1997 . Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography . New York : Amistad Press, Inc . Césaire Aimé . 1983 . Cahier d’un retour au pays natal...

.... But there is more to the discrepancy in enduring feelings than just magnitude or habituation. In the United States, the idea has taken hold that we are living in a ‘‘time of terror The phrase, often modified to ‘‘war on terror has gained sufficient currency to serve as the rubric under which present times...

... on terror conse- quent to the 9/11 bombings, which was colored with considerable commen- tary about the repressive nature of the Taliban regime and the role played by the Saudi exportation of Wahhabism, there was no invocation of ideol- ogy. And as far as the occupation of Iraq was concerned, the Bush...

..., one that leaves the reader the time required to reflect on the contents of the world of culture, the history of man, from one end to the other, from mythol- ogy to hackers, from the ancient texts of the Veda to terrorism and pornog- raphy. And this is the beauty of this book, since Calasso does...

..., please introduce yourself and describe your work. EF: I m a freelance journalist, mainly covering Afghanistan and the wider region. I have reported on the War on Terror primarily, although I also write about Islamophobia and the rise of right- wing nationalist movements in Ger- many, Austria...

... of the eco- nomic collapse was the Global War on Terror. Its effectiveness as a political bloc depended on two basic factors: the extent to which the weakening of the Global War on Terror’s conventional articulations led social elements to enter a “crisis” state of unfixity, and the extent to which...