...Susan Willis Duke University Press 2002 Anthrax “ ”R Us In the wake of September 11, when the nation was still reeling from the Susan Willis attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the media, appar...

... In addition to microbes, the Selous Scouts deployed the fungus anthrax. Bacillus anthracis spreads through skin contact, inhalation, or ingestion. Every gram of anthrax material contains one hundred million lethal...

... 2002 Contents McJihad: Islam in the U.S. Global Order Timothy Mitchell 1 Anthrax “R ” Us Susan Willis 19 Visual and Performance Studies: A New History of Interdisciplinarity Catherine Soussloff...

... Politics of Viral as possible causes for infectious disease did it occur to them that parasit- ism might serve as a universal explanation. Containment Robert Koch’s etiology of anthrax (1876) probably provides...

... studies, has been beset in all sorts of ways by charges of 118 Schueller/Dawson anti-Americanism. Not long after 9/11 (and during the anthrax scare) Not long after I remember receiving letters at NYU addressed to the “Department of Anti-American Studies.” Around...

... site a local misery would be blown halfway around the world. On the other hand, the quarantine of the Afghan people (while the most wanted slipped away) was twinned by the management of the anthrax mailings. Recycling old colonial tropes, the rescue operation...

..., not knowing what could strike next, fire, racial profiling, pestilence—that bitty white powder filled with anthrax spores (a floor of the Graduate Center, since we are next door to the Empire State Building, 32 Lopamudra Basu was shut down...

.... collateral damage The preparations for war with Iraq bred a daily litany of the threats we face: dirty bombs in our cities, anthrax in our mail, dockside contain- that our war daily ers loaded with chemical agents, bombs that explode power plants into nuclear chain reactions, dams primed...

... David Hollander. “I want to touch on the reality that agenda of there’s an incredible irrational fear.” CIA-blessed drama The Agency origi- nally planned to air a fictional anthrax attack last winter, but pulled the patriotism. episode two days before it was scheduled...

... being made by the military-industrial complex on the present war; that Planned Parenthood has faced anthrax threats for years; that college campuses are being targeted as sites of antipatriotism. Try to see what is not easily visible. Rethink invisibility; rethink as overt the covert realms...