Terror as thrill: First thoughts on the 'war on terrorism'

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 139-150

  Aretxaga, Begoña ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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References (15)

1. Elizabeth Grosz. 1999. Becomings: Explorations in Time, Memory and Futures. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
2. Vincent Crapanzano has written about the existential situation of waiting in Crapanzano, Vincent. 1980. Waiting: The Whites of South Africa. New York: Vintage.
3. Jacques Derrida. 1994. Specters of Marx: The State of Debt, The Work of Mourning, and the New International. New York: Routledge.
4. New York Times October 10, 2001, p. B8 "More strikes against U.S. threatened" by John F. Burns.
5. I am borrowing here the title of the well known book: Hobsbawm, Eric and Terence Ranger (eds.), 1992. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
6. New York Times, 10/11/01 Raymond Bonner "Experts doubt Iraq role in latest terror attacks" p. B7.
7. New York Times on the web "Document that may have been used to prepare the attacks is reported found" by Neil A. Lewis and David Johnston. (9/28/01).
8. El Pais "El Manual del Terrorista:'asesinar soldados y turistas'" October 4, 2001.
9. See in this respect Joseba Zulaika and William Douglass Terror and Taboo. The Follies, Fables and Faces of Terrorism. London: Routledge, 1996.
10. See for example the report on George Bush enlisting the aid of Hollywood and of the popular show "American's Most Wanted" for the hunt of terrorists. New York Times 10/11/01 Alessandra Stanley "President is using TV show and the public in combination to combat terrorism" p. B2.
11. See for example the report on George Bush enlisting the aid of Hollywood and of the popular show "American's Most Wanted" for the hunt of terrorists. New York Times 10/11/01 Alessandra Stanley "President is using TV show and the public in combination to combat terrorism" p. B2.
12. Dailynews.Yahoo.com/htx/nm/20011008/en/people-terrorists.
13. See on this respect Toni Negri and Michael Heart. 2000. Empire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, in which the authors argue that the state of exception will articulate a new form of "right" in the new global order.
14. New York Times, October 2, 2001. "Negotiators back scaled-down bill to battle terror" by Neil A. Lewis and Robert Pear.
15. Giorgio Agamben. 1998. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Stanford, Ca: Stanford University Press.