...Brandon Ballengée © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 The 2010 BP (formerly British Petroleum) Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill was the largest environmental disaster in the history of the United States ( Belanger et al. 2010 ). The Gulf of Mexico is one of the most important...

..., save for their futures, and accrue enough money to access ART services. For many South Asians, Dubai is now the global hub for both labor migration and reproductive exile, owing to the long history of South Asian–Arab Gulf transnationalism, as well as Dubai's reputation for specializing in all manner...

...Figure 1 Murals in the 41 Squadron hangar, Coltishall. These were painted for a “welcome home” ball after the first Gulf War of 1991. Exhausted cartoon aircraft chase moustachioed missiles across rusting steel doors. ...

... of the New World Order (with Tiananmen Square and the Gulf War), and anticipates the War on Terrorism by mobilizing the geopolitical aspects of representation and the representable found in the strategy of using the power of “real-time” satellite broadcast against itself in the 2001 attacks in the US...

.... Examples mobilized to support this argument include the understanding of the deep ocean ecologies in the Gulf of Mexico that arose from the Deepwater Horizon disaster and knowledge of the ecological functions of mangroves that arose after numerous oil spills and leakages in the Caribbean. In both cases...

... the dominant order and a form of terrorism that is at once of, against, and within the order, and eluding its grasp. While Jean Baudrillard had earlier argued that the Gulf War did not take place and dismissed the conflict as a nonevent (1995: 70), he saw in the September 11, 2001 attacks the return...

... as a consequence of media technology overriding diplomacy, consensus, and negotiation in matters of war (specifically the first Gulf War). Characterizing war waged virtually rather than on the ground, Desert Screen highlights the growing significance of speed in warfare and also the preeminence of the image...

..., 2001 that would reassert the American sphere. There have, of course, been a number of candidates. Was it the raising of the flag at “Ground Zero,” itself a mimetic act evoking the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima? Was it the spectacle of “shock and awe” that opened Gulf War II (the sequel...

... in the latter half of the twentieth century – making a marked turn that became evident during the first Gulf War (though its roots are earlier). News media imagery is so often mere smokescreen, the production of bad-faith illusion, that it has contributed to an erosion of belief in the reference value of all...

... and the 2008 banking crises ( The Low Road and Moral Hazard , 2009, respectively). I have used the iconography of the Green Man (see Basford 1978 ) and grotesques to research the corporate relationships behind the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill ( Green Men , 2010–11). I’ve also been influenced by the period...

... government charged that we broke the law by bringing aid and medicine to Iraq before and during the second gulf war. An unjust law must be broken to serve a higher law called justice, Bill argued before the judge. I found it moving and convincing; unfortunately the judge did not. We lost the case. Bill...

... refer directly to the idea of infancy, Pagès and Hui use Lyotard's interventions in debates about topics such as Algeria or the Gulf War to explain how Lyotard's thought can help us think about our present, Woodward distances him from the melancholic negativity to which Jacques Rancière has condemned...

... destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin. President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s response was to request what became known as the “Tonkin Gulf Resolution” – an agreement from the US Congress to grant support for “all necessary action” to protect US forces. With the resolution passed later that month, America was thus set...

..., and there remains a gulf between the civitas and these potential servants of civil order. RoboCop/Murphy’s specific difference as soldier-citizen or “miles”—the one who “[defends] his possessions, his family and the entire city, as well as his own person” ( Virilio 2005 : 6)—at least according to his designers...

... chronicle. 1 Whether commenting upon contemporaneous social and political events as diverse as mad cow disease, the appeal of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the Heidegger affair, reality television, the Gulf War, or France’s “no” vote on Europe, Baudrillard not only provoked (if this was often the first effect...

... before, arming itself for operations in the Gulf. On breakfast television the next day I caught some of the live footage of troops entering Saddam Hussein's palace. The media spectacle located the war very far from here – this war about the illicit possession of nuclear arms. The next day I...

...), and the Guggenheim in New York. Recent texts have been published in Creative Time Reports , Foreign Policy , Ibraaz , Social Text , Triple Canopy , Manifesta Journal ; and the readers Artists Writing 2000–2015 , Dissonant Archives , and The Gulf: High Culture, Hard Labor . Ghani has collaborated with artist...

... Gulf War, or the torture and humiliation of Abu Ghraib prisoners in Iraq. But unlike the Myth of the Glory of War, the Myth of the Superiority Found in Surviving War lingers with the help of photography, for the obvious reasons that it consoles the surviving victims and awards the bravery of soldiers...

... of the second Gulf War was not so much air strikes as the shock of images and ideas. While children and soldiers were getting themselves killed, television was transforming the war into a dreadful soap opera, with repeats and fresh episodes on the hour,” Jérôme Charyn wrote, 9 thereby defining...