..., and the roof where the police killed him after years of waging war against the Colombian state. Unlike the polemic films and series on the Colombian drug lord, the Wiz Khalifa controversy was the first time an outcry about the depiction of Escobar was aimed at a US Black artist, particularly a rapper...

... and equally through education and media representation, the “ideological state apparatuses” identified by Louis Althusser (1971) . Ronald Reagan’s “war on drugs” was not simply political rhetoric but a real declaration of violence against a specific demographic, namely, the black community, an attack...

... attraction: “The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.” As the noise of vehicles and voices becomes perceptible, the first few words fade out, leaving the phrase “war is a drug” visible, before that too fades to black. This rubric is a declaration of intent, outlining...

... poetics and politics of converting the writing subject into a medium of worlded multicultural otherness and/or the consolidation of selfhood and cultural-political belief in such settings. In Cold War contexts threatened with the allure and bad faith of orientalism and the romantic sublime, the stylistic...

...: a comprehensive and more humane acknowledgement of war; a revelation and analysis of our own complicity and passive acceptance of things as they are; different and multiple ways to access, interpret, and act on the magnitude of war and its aftermath; the truth; an uncovering of covert operations...

... to the French drug campaign in Laos, which can certainly not have been a war of prevention, and the coded reference to the US threat to French business interests in Indochina suggest that Greene suspected that drug profits were at stake (see Greene 1980: 124, 157 ). Greene may or may not have adapted the facts...

... road movie New Hollywood speed resistance One consequence of the war in Iraq has been the retrieval of a number of Vietnam-era antiwar feature films and documentaries that were hitherto considered, if at all, as artifacts of a long-past historical moment. Among the features that have recently...

... and the technologies of law and medicine enacted there have a much longer history and are not unique to the contemporary war on terror. In fact, the treatment of the Haitian refugees in the 1990s has been instrumental in enabling twenty-first-century incarceration at the base. Further, their treatment was crucial...

..., as the potential creativity of disabled young people trapped inside their bodies that had been “muted” by the drug’s harmful side effects caused before their birth. Lennon and Ono’s bed-in against the war in Vietnam — also an avowedly “transparty political event”— followed, and the decades since have seen many...

...). The act of a public identifi cation through showing or bearing icons had been a staple of twentieth-century America, from the NRA Eagle to the Gold Star in the window of those families who had lost a child in war. The Yellow Ribbon intended to create an empathetic identification with the state...

... movements led to economic and political chaos, war, and massive human tragedy, today's authoritarians are bringing widespread economic crisis and uncertainty, political chaos, oppression and division, and human suffering that is cascading throughout the globe and intensifying in the COVID-19 crisis...

... demand for a certain material on the international market—ivory in Victorian times, rubber after the invention of the inflatable tire, copper in the full industrial and military expansion, uranium during the Cold War, coltan in times of mobile telephony—Congo turned out to have huge amounts...

... crisis of the 1970s; two Gulf Wars; the Balkans crises; and the various and continual wars on drugs, crime, terror, and obesity. Throughout the twentieth century, the public consciousness of mass mediated societies has been dominated by overriding concerns that have demanded massive spending and debt...

..., a rival drug gang. “Grail” is run by the wounded Amfortas whose father Titurel is in a constant delirium induced by too much drugs; Amfortas is under terrible pressure from the members of the gang to “perform the ritual” i.e., to deliver the daily portion of drugs to them. He was “wounded” (infected...

... themselves caught between fierce ideological battles between the Right and Left. Countercultural youth were policed during Allende’s government, as marihuana sweeps took place throughout the city, and the media painted participants as “drug addicts,” “delinquents,” and “perverts.” For Barr-Melej...

...Leong Yew Little has been written about Asian spy films and their relationship with Cold War cultural studies. While their Anglo-American counterparts could be discursively analyzed for the way they portrayed Western anxieties about communism, constructed own identities as opposed to the alterity...

... that for Europe there are only two stories: in one, the hero ventures abroad and dies in the attempt to capture a distant city; in the other, he puts to sea in order to return home to his love after twenty years of war and wandering. This nostos [homecoming], this ever-repeated return to the Greeks, guides...

... individualism, narcissism, and similar socioeconomic and psychocultural forms that established themselves so firmly during the course of capitalist history. However, drawing from the bitter experience of the previous slide into depression, fascism, and war, it provided the conditions for a temporary cultural...

..., are imprudent and impudent subjects of moral panic. The US today is a risk society laden with such moral panics. For example, when school drug use diminishes, people believe it increases. The basis for such misconceptions is media reportage – so when the number of murders declines, the coverage of murders...

... of authoritarianism, the author calls for the primacy of a cultural politics in which learning is linked to social change and pedagogy is embraced as a moral and political practice that takes place in a wide range of cultural sites. References Agence France Presse News Line . 2004 . “ Holy War: Evangelical...