... in the person's absence. Though this question has a long philosophical history, it took on a directly political and practical turn in the United States on 12 November 2002. On that day, Al Jazeera broadcast a tape purported to contain the voice of Osama bin Laden. Programs for political action hinged on a classic...

... through the middle of town is an indicator of the changes that Sultan Qaboos bin Said al-Bu Saidi’s rule inaugurated. Most statistics illustrating the dramatic changes in Oman after the 1970 coup d’état do not fail to mention road construction: in 1970 there were 6 kilometers of paved road...

... is an understandable response in the wake of a traumatic cri- sis, but it is also our civic responsibility to be skeptical about such ahis- torical narratives. Bin Laden, fingered so hastily as the incarnation of evil, was, as we know, at one point...

... militancy. So, as an article in the New York Times points out, “Osama bin Laden, according to Fox News Channel anchors, ana- lysts and correspondents, is ‘a dirtbag,’ ‘a monster’ overseeing a ‘web of hate.’ His followers in Al Qaeda...

... stance. banding together At present, economic flows of the global economy simply lessen the divide further. The bin Laden family itself represents this form of global- with military ism. The family’s money is tied to multiple Western investments...

....jsp . Globe. 2001 . Wanted: Bin Laden. Inside his sick, twisted world , 2 October, 7 -8. Glynn, Kevin. 2000 . Tabloid culture: Trash taste, popular power, and the transformation of American television . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Gupta, Akhil. 1998 . Postcolonial developments...

..., for instance, what Moham- med Atta’s family life was like, whether he was teased for looking like a girl, where he congregated in Hamburg, and what led, psychologically, to the moment in which he piloted the plane into the World Trade Center. Or what was bin Laden’s break from his family, and why is he so...

... . New York : Cambridge University Press . White Richard . 2010 . “What Is Spatial History?” Working paper , Spatial History Lab , February 1 . www.stanford.edu/group/spatialhistory/cgi-bin/site/pub.php?id=29 . Roundtable...

... of two highly mediatic bodies — the recorded voices of Osama bin Laden and, to a lesser extent, George W. Bush. A reflection on the status of the voice within American political culture, Sterne’s essay notes how, rather than the discursive content of bin Laden’s communiqués, it was the qualities...

... of the Cold War, Sharon declared, “The fight against terror is an international struggle of the free world against the forces of darkness who seek to destroy our liberty and way of life. Together we can defeat these forces of evil.”2 After September 11, Sharon repeatedly equated Osama bin Laden and Al...

... the murderous activities of COINTELPRO, was designed to establish a legacy of intimate violence — and in this way was a clear indication of the erotic power presented in the black liberation movement. In the words of former political prisoner Dhoruba Bin Wahad...

... Is Spatial History?” Working Paper , Spatial History Lab . web.stanford.edu/group/spatialhistory/cgi-bin/site/pub.php?id=29 . Mapping a Slave Revolt Visualizing Spatial History through the Archives of Slavery Vincent Brown...

... on the western side of the Berlin Wall as an outpost of freedom facing a Communist border zone. “All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin,” Kennedy declared, “and therefore as a free man I am proud to declare ‘Ich bin ein Berliner.’ ”14...

... central characters, Bin Bin (Zhao Weiwei) and Xiao Ji (Wu Qiong), leav- ing a dance club skirmish and stumbling into an outdoor broadcast of Beijing’s successful Olympic bid in 2001 (see fig. 10). In the context of the Ahuja • Abu Zubaydah...

... in the world by the compression of air in a particular way—less potent than the dust on a heckler’s shoe? What about the fear of Osama bin Laden’s mere words being broadcast on Arabic television: “This isn’t Symbolic Matter 119...

... of the early statements of the young sultan, Qaboos bin Said al-Bu Saidi, as well as the policies and projects of the new government. Sultan Qaboos bin Said al-Bu Saidi, who deposed his father, Sultan Said bin Taimur, in a coup...

...,” Social Text 18 (2000): 33 – 58; Ter- ranova, Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age (London; Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2004); Trebor Scholz, “Market Ideology and the Myths of Web 2.0,” First Monday 13, no. 3 (3 March 2008), firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs...

... with Osama bin Laden, Sani Abacha, Shah Rukh Khan, Tupac Shakur, and Ali Nuhu preachers contest for space on Kano buses and taxis.41 The recent revival of sharia law is contemporaneous with the jump in popularity of gangsta rap and hip-hop with Osama...

... Hussein is the pursuit of Osama bin Laden by other means. It has urged moral panic that might keep people sealed into their homes with duct tape and fearful of public parks and schools as places to duck and cover (see Susan Willis’s essay in this issue on the D.C.-area snipers). The default...

... September 11, White House officials claim that Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden are plotting together against the United States. This suppliers has rationale, used to justify war in Iraq, is highly spurious, as it is well known that the secular Hussein...