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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 1–43.
Published: 01 March 2012
.... The study breaks with a tendency of US and other Western media that associate terrorism with al-Qaeda and Islamic jihad and argues that there are many branches of domestic terrorism and eruptions of societal violence, two examples of which I explore in this study. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 391–394.
Published: 01 November 2006
... be an alternative to US empire and an antithesis to al Qaeda. While they paint a grim picture of the present, their message is that resistance is possible, and it might be more effective if it were framed as a movement against the tyranny of military neoliberalism. The authors begin by arguing that both the US...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 183–200.
Published: 01 July 2008
..., neofundamentalists regard themselves the only true Muslims (Roy 2004: 232–4) . Paradoxically, far from representing a traditional Islamic culture and/or religion, many militants cut off ties with their own societies and families. Except for the Saudis, all second generation Al Qaeda militants, while not endorsing...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 399–402.
Published: 01 November 2006
... movement, and, later, Al Qaeda. Such treatment partly explains why these groups have chosen Al-Jazeera to express their views to the world. Miles’ book contextualizes Al-Jazeera on several levels, making it an exciting read and a major contribution to Media, Cultural, and Political Studies. First...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 399–412.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Schmitt) that inform Kittler's broader historical survey of technology and enmity. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 Friedrich Kittler terrorism Horst Herold Red Army Faction (RAF) al-Qaeda At first glance Friedrich Kittler's 2002 Mosse Lecture, “Of States and Their Terrorists...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 385–397.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Minh” in order to position themselves as future foreign ministers, they probably didn't realize in the name of which tenno they were raising their voices. 5 And the story continues with al-Qaeda's current operations on Bali or Mindanao. Facing this serious challenge to its rule over East Asia...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 139–152.
Published: 01 July 2018
... repeated until they had the ring of truth, like the claim that Saddam Hussein was hiding “weapons of mass destruction” and was in alliance with al Qaeda (a favorite whopper of Dick Cheney and his minions), contrasted with Bold Lies that informed people knew were not true (like the Saddam – al Qaeda...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 302–313.
Published: 01 November 2021
... in the manuscript Mohammad's Night Journey ), military aircraft delivering soldiers to the battlefields that have already been strewn with destroyed buildings, twisted metal, body parts, and toppled monuments of dictators. An imam addresses his congregation, while Al-Qaeda's “Jihadi John” carries out...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 267–276.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of different disciplines in the humanities, arts, and qualitative social sciences. In the aftermath of the four synchronized terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, and all the many responses to them, as well as the continued...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 75–100.
Published: 01 March 2005
... that the bombing did not have the signature of ETA but was more typical of an Al Qaeda attack, and that intelligence agencies themselves pointed in this direction. Consequently, the Spanish people used the Internet, cell phones and messaging, and other modes of technological communication to mobilize people...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 251–261.
Published: 01 November 2014
... in social media. But, while these programs mine distributed networks for data, the use of the data is centralized. Why this inability to fully mobilize in distributed networks? Because military culture is committed to hierarchy. Decentralized networks can work in military culture, as al Qaeda (the Base...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 157–170.
Published: 01 July 2010
... – that find expression in France in the Front National , in some countries with Al Qaeda, and in others in self-destructive behaviors, drug abuse, etc. And this happens at a point when capitalism is currently discovering its own real limits in environ mental terms, in terms of the biosphere. In this regard...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 310–331.
Published: 01 November 2016
... and thereby prevent their destruction but mud has also proven integral to the maintenance of its architecture, which embodies the city’s spiritual and cultural heritage. Residents have used banco to rebuild, brick by brick, mausoleums destroyed in recent years by al-Qaeda. And since the fourteenth century...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 281–298.
Published: 01 November 2006
... and occupation, may or may not now be on the verge of disintegrating into different parts, controlled by Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds, who are divided by religion, tradition, and even language. The global War on Terror was launched by the US and other nation states against Al Qaeda and its allies, none of which...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 53–69.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., and other new technologies enable everyone to become part of the spectacle (if you can afford, and know how to use, the technology). Hence today, everyone from Hollywood and political celebrities, to Internet activists in Egypt and Tunisia, to terrorists like al-Qaeda, or deranged killers, can create...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 29–48.
Published: 01 March 2006
... between the urban, married, educated “entrepreneurial terrorists” such as Mohammad Atta and Osama bin Laden, and the uneducated, fanatical, single, and predominantly rural “muscle hijackers,” the report claimed that this latter group personified the social condition that allowed Al Qaeda to thrive. All...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 51–74.
Published: 01 March 2005
... policy and the way it pushed a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda). The concept of communicative capitalism tries to capture this strange merging of democracy and capitalism. It does so by highlighting the way networked communications bring the two together. Communicative capitalism designates that form...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 277–298.
Published: 01 November 2009
..., the French headscarf debate, honor killings in Germany, the Danish cartoon controversy, the assassination of the film director, Theo Van Gogh, in the Netherlands, and al-Qaeda attacks in Madrid, London, and Istanbul. These are different acts and deeds in different national settings, but each refers...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 133–156.
Published: 01 March 2011
... the secret location of Osama bin Laden (who, at the time of writing, is still the CIA's most wanted, some years after September 11), but I do not know how that information will be used. Will I be misquoted in a newspaper? Will I be arrested as an al Qaeda co-conspirator? Will I be committed to a mental...
