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... of those who were its perpetrators. Michelle Brown had made this point already in 2005, when she wrote that the shock of the photographs from Abu Ghraib consisted in the “patriotic delight of the torturers, in America ‘out of place.’ ” For Brown, Abu Ghraib represents the exportation...

... of this queer been far more preoccupied with gay marriage and gays in the military exceptionalism than the war on terrorism or even the “homosexual sex” torture scandal at Abu Ghraib.2 In fact...

... in an attempt to locate him before his arrest in Pakistan.20 A former guard at Abu Ghraib, herself convicted of pris- oner abuse, has also described finding a young prisoner screaming in the dark, swarmed by ants.21...

... of tortured Iraqis at Abu Ghraib bear witness to this new virtualization of history, where political puppetry and technological artifice create truth effects and reversion historical process. The orchestrators of such image games are anchored in an ahistorical synchronic space...

... with its roots in sensations of touch and in the transit of energies between bodies, whether consensual or not. And I am referring to the erotics of a domination achieved and maintained through sensing—what Nicholas Mirzoeff in his analysis of the images from Abu Ghraib calls the visual “erotics of global...

... but not foreclosed.12 Ironically, it is from the unofficial, pornographic, and taboo subcultures of war that images have emerged to interrupt the silencing chatter of official war culture and to force the open secrets out into the light of day. The now infamous Abu Ghraib torture photos were...

..., “Flying While Brown” is like “Driving While Black”; the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride “builds on the history of the noble US civil rights movement”; the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib is reminiscent of the lynching of blacks)59 is made possible by a misrecognition of the lived experience...

... — the military and biopolitical — have been deliberately blurred, though under the sign of permanent war. As is often observed, the war on terror finds its institutional hallmark in a carceral archipelago: Guantánamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, the unspecified secret CIA “detention centers” and “renditional...

... to reproduce.5 The film takes a particularly North American and post- ­9/11 angle in its adaptation, changing English characters into American ones and evoking obvious visual parallels to the war in Iraq, Abu Ghraib prison...

... America,” New York Times, 30 March 2003. 9. The treatment of Iraqi prisoners of war and the histories of sexual humili- ation of racially oppressed people in the United States are profoundly linked. The Abu Ghraib photos, like so many from...

... of the Koran and nothing but, so that they may be tortured, while monoculturalism in Abu Ghraib prison, specific acts of torture (forced alcohol drinking and masturbation) produce the tortured as a caricature of “Islam violated.”37 becomes a This new racism...

...: Prerequisites of Torture at Abu Ghraib .” Antipode 38 , no. 5 ( 2006 ): 1005 – 22 . Taylor Edward Stuart . History of the American Gynecological Society and American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. St. Louis : Moseby , 1985 . Tremayne V. “Proctoclysis: Emergency...

... a critical accounting of, among other things, the religious vectors of the US State’s carceral archipelago. The prison regime’s embodied violence, dramatized in the journalistic accounts of sites like Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo and in cinematic portrayals of torture and black sites, brings to bear different...

... 2:38:01 PM the tacit acceptance of U.S. imperialist expansion.” In short, nationalist debates on marriage and gays in the military come to replace any and all principled objections to state violence and torture, exemplified by Guantà- namo and Abu Ghraib...

... century. And the images of prisoners tortured by US soldiers at Abu Ghraib make it equally clear that such disciplinary models have not displaced more overt modes of control, in which people are incarcerated, tormented, and forced into actions against their will. However, as I have argued...

.... The all-too-obvious example of the world’s newest democracy, Iraq, would seem to beg the question very forcefully. Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib may conceal torture rather than display it for public affirmation of the sovereign’s power, but they nevertheless suggest that standard inter- pretations...

... torture of detainees at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, and in the supercarceral states of mechanized isolation in modern prisons of the United States, in which inmates sometimes go untouched for years. Lack of affection greatly contributes to the sicknesses afflicting children...

...., they were all okay” (41). It is impossible not to link the infantryman’s fascination with materials that depict women being subjected to degradation and violence with the sexualized torture systematically introduced at Abu Ghraib. At training...

.... 4. See Allen Feldman, “On the Actuarial Gaze: From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib,” Cultural Studies 19, no. 2 (2005): 203 – 26. 5. See, for example, Thomas M. Helfer et al., “Noise-­Induced Hearing Injury and Comorbidities among Postdeployment US...

... of image events (from Rodney King to Abu Ghraib) has imbued contemporary policing with an ever-increasing attention to vision. The reading of bodies wields a pivotal position in the understanding of threat. And so seeing the absent image of El Directo, finding his face, became primary...