...Jasbir K. Puar 2005 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2005 On Torture: Abu Ghraib Jasbir K. Puar The torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib is neither exceptional nor singular, as many—Donald Rumsfeld and the Bush...

...Nicholas Mirzoeff MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2006 Invisible Empire: Visual Culture, Embodied Spectacle, and Abu Ghraib Nicholas Mirzoeff When the photographs taken in the Iraqi prison of Abu Ghraib became public in April 2004, it seemed...

... be linked to the current torture scandals at Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo Bay, and other secret CIA so-called black-site prisons. MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2008 voices Feminism, Torture, and the Politics of Chicana/Third World Solidarity: An Interview with Olga Talamante...

... detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison. © 2013 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2013 Occupy Wall Street Meets Occupy Iraq On Remembering and Forgetting in a Digital Age Stefka Hristova The true picture of the past whizzes by. Only as a picture, which flashes its final farewell...

... in torture and I will torture you.”  — Ameen Sa’eed Al-Sheik, Abu Ghraib detainee No. 151362, deposition to Prisoner Interview/Interrogation Team, January 16, 2004 Imagine the U.S. prison not as a discrete institution, but, rather, as an abstracted site — or, if you will, a prototype — of organized...

... television news inter- viewers following the dramatic revelations of the abuse and torture of Iraqi prison- ers by U.S. soldiers, military intelligence officers, and private contractors at Abu Ghraib prison, west of Baghdad. As an exercise in damage control, Bush’s disavowal was scarcely surprising...

... Ferdinand Botero, best known for his innocuous depictions of exaggeratedly corpulent, stylized human figures, has recently turned to contemporary political issues. In 2006, he exhibited a series of nearly fifty large-scale “history paintings” depicting the torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib...

... tactics at Abu Ghraib seem to have registered as horrific affronts to political perception. Among those whose work has long drawn them to the violent entailments of imperial history, these phenom- ena may register as something else: at once familiar, anachronistic, and historically resonant. Boldly...

... to develop into news, were the then still percolating insurgency and the symbolism of Abu Ghraib. Speaking of the former, one artist and poet explains, “there is a national resistance in Iraq . . . [and] they have nothing to do with Saddam. Perhaps America had a plan for Iraq, but it was surprised...

... events such as the torture of Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison and the pepper spraying of peaceful protesters during the Occupy movement at the University of California, Davis, highlighting the impact of digital culture on the processes of remembering and forgetting within popular culture...

... a brutally revivifi ed version of, and one unapologetically continuous with, older forms of control. Jasbir Puar reads the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib as an instance of the violence that has always been intrinsic to the civilizing mission. The U.S...

... deeply disturbing photographs of abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.31 The ensuing public horror prompted Bush to decry the prison as a “symbol of disgraceful conduct by a few American troops who dishonored our country and disregarded our values.”32 Those values became the subject of public...

... by the revelations of CIA and military involvement in the prisoner abuse scan- dal at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Extreme Makeovers 2 Less than a month before the release of “U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis,” there had been another revelation from...

... that only covered the felonies and misdemeanors of soldiers and never once mentioned the Nazi leadership — or of an inquiry into torture in Abu Ghraib that ignored the crimes of the Bush administration. Notes 1. Mark Lane, Conversations With Americans (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970). 2...

... it as a form of theater for public consumption. When the images from Abu Ghraib prison became public, the veneer of sanitization was temporarily shattered, but it has since returned to mainstream media coverage of Iraq and other ongoing conflicts. While Lindman’s drawings remove the context for grief...

... of the Abu Ghraib photographs when we saw male prisoners compelled to masturbate in public, naked men in piles, men with genitals exposed to female guards. The early published reports on Abu Ghraib by the military were all quite forthright that sexual humiliation had been part of the treatment...

... contribution, “Invisible Empire: Visual Culture, Embodied Spectacle, and Abu Ghraib,” investigates the implications and visual-cultural effects of the recent revelations of U.S. treatment of Iraqi “prisoners of war.” Mirzoeff, whose latest book is also reviewed in this issue, analyzes varying cultural...

... and humiliation of mostly male Iraqis imprisoned in Abu Ghraib. So much differed in the two settings: the wars’ aims, the manner in which they were being fought, the attention paid to them by the international community, the socioeconomic and ideo- logical settings from which perpetrators and victims had...

... in the 1950s and 1960s, and the Florida electoral debacle of 2000.9 We can also include the wanton destruction of civility and justice at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay in this list of governmental abuse and misuse of power that fuels conspiracy theories. These references...

... in government” statistics, which had hovered in the mid-­50s from roughly 1985 to 2002, had dropped to 17 percent by 2008.21 At the same time that Americans wit- nessed an increase in violence and death in Iraq, learned of torture at Abu Ghraib 198  Radical History Review and elsewhere, and watched...