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...Slavoj Žižek The essay analyzes revolutionary terror apropos of two exemplary cases: the Jacobin phase of the French Revolution and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. In both cases, terror should be dismissed not as a mass crime but as a failed articulation of the radical emancipatory will. Our task...

...L. H. M. Ling 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 The Monster Within: What Fu Manchu and Hannibal Lecter Can Tell Us about Terror and Desire in a Post-9/11 World L. H. M. Ling Since September 11, 2001, the Bush administration has taken on an Orien...

...Satoshi Ukai 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Translated by Thomas LaMarre The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions: For a “Critique of Terrorism” to Come Satoshi Ukai Terrorism—The Ultimate Political Concept Let me begin with Carl Schmitt’s The Concept...

..., the terrorist. As the war on terror bleeds into the war on piracy, the dual logics of segregation and immunization that shape all biopolitical paradigms of security increasingly inform reports brought out by government agencies and ostensibly independent think tanks. Securitizing the global population against...

...Sylvia Li-chun Lin This essay examines the current state of Taiwanese culture through the project of restoration of history, focusing on a corpus of literary works that represent Taiwan's 2/28 Incident and its aftermath, the White Terror. Post-martial law Taiwan witnessed the birthing of a new...

... in 1996, some artists produced a critical politics on the side of victims, but after 1996 the artists produced a politics of loss that capitalizes on the shock of the massacre to make the point that Thai society has forgotten it. In this essay, I examine these visceral evocations of terror, grief, longing...

... that terrorizes human beings in modern Seoul. At the same time, while adding depth to both the semantic and the allegorical meanings of the monster, The Host interrogates the monstrous nature of the sign in ways that resonate with Derrida’s arguments concerning the monstrous nature of the sign. In this essay...

...”: Jacobins were at their best not in the theatrics of Terror, but in the utopian explosions of political imagination apropos the reorganization of daily life: everything was there, proposed in the course of the frantic activity con- densed...

... Hussein’s ecological terrorism substituted for images of humans wounded by American bombs. After the war, CBS revealed that one particularly sad cormorant, whose struggle for life was shown over and over again on TV, had actually been the victim...

... the current U.Sled global “war on terror.” 11 Violent conflict ensued again in March 2000, when President Joseph Estrada declared an “all-­out war” against the MILF that eventually dis- Nubla ❘ Managing the “Moro Problem...

...-American struggle against past tyrants and oppressors. Bush’s speech was filled with allusions to war, since his ultimate aim was to secure Filipino participation in the “great war” against terror. A shared history of wars, he argued, makes...

... on “terror.” But we should note here that our inclusion of West and Central Asia in this introduction runs the risk of an Asian expansionism, as it is questionable whether people in these regions see themselves as part of Asia or as Asians...

..., disintegrate in the blink of an eye; entire populations vanish. We confront in such images a compulsion to repeat what terrifies us, but repetition of the terror of world annihilation also numbs us to it, and larger doses...

... language, the physiol- ogy of terror, hunger, murder? To become a useful category, the priorities of trauma studies would have to shift from conceptual and mentalist works to the somatics of physical abomination and terror. No longer primarily con...

... the Indian government’s “spirit of non- violence,” fatalities in India from terrorism, insurgency, and their suppres- sion were 5,839.91 In Kashmir, seventy thousand have died in the past twenty years of civil strife, many of them civilians killed...

... (IIRIRA). The IIRIRA, along with the Anti- Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) passed earlier in April the same year, have radically altered immi- gration policies. Speci cally, these changes in immigration law accelerated...

... of revolutionary change, agrarian so- ciety, comparative regional development, social movements, war and terror, and imperialism with particular reference to China, Japan, East Asia, and world social change. He is the author or editor of Chinese Village...

... a fake notion, “capitalist vitality,” in his “Media Piracy and the Terrorist Boogeyman: Speculative Potentiations.” Sarkar exposes how, rhetorically, copyright piracy has been fused to create a fake war-­on-­terror figure, as familiar acronyms...

...- nent here, state-­police theater.12 Despite Korea’s apparent ever-­forward, ever-­ new movement after its emergence from a history of political violence and terror, shadows perturbed Neo-­Korea’s shine. At the fin de siècle of Korea’s late...

... their game. Guerrilla versus guerrilla. Terrorism versus terrorism. We’ve got to scare the Iraqis into submission.”3 Preemptive manhunting would seem to refer to an unconventional, guerrilla, or partisan style of warfare deployed by regular combatants...