The flames of New York

New Left Review

Volumn , Issue 12, 2001, Pages 34-49

  Davis, Mike ^a  

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1. H. G. Wells, The War in the Air, New York 1908, pp. 210-11; hereafter WA.
2. WA, pp. 181-82.
3. WA, pp. 182-83, 186, and 211.
4. 'Dance of Death' (1929).
5. See Poet in New York, New York 1998, p. 41.
6. Poet in New York, pp. 192-93.
7. 'This storm is what we call progress.' Walter Benjamin, 'Theses on the Philosophy of History', Illuminations, New York 1969, p. 257 ff.
8. Some representative studies: Marina Warner, No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock, New York 1998; Jane Franklin, ed., The Politics of the Risk Society, Oxford 1998; Nancy Schultz, ed., Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture, West Lafayette 1999; Paul Newman, A History of Terror: Fear and Dread Through the Ages, New York 2000; and Robert Goldberg, Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America, New Haven 2001.
9. Some representative studies: Marina Warner, No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock, New York 1998; Jane Franklin, ed., The Politics of the Risk Society, Oxford 1998; Nancy Schultz, ed., Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture, West Lafayette 1999; Paul Newman, A History of Terror: Fear and Dread Through the Ages, New York 2000; and Robert Goldberg, Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America, New Haven 2001.
10. Some representative studies: Marina Warner, No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock, New York 1998; Jane Franklin, ed., The Politics of the Risk Society, Oxford 1998; Nancy Schultz, ed., Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture, West Lafayette 1999; Paul Newman, A History of Terror: Fear and Dread Through the Ages, New York 2000; and Robert Goldberg, Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America, New Haven 2001.
11. Some representative studies: Marina Warner, No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock, New York 1998; Jane Franklin, ed., The Politics of the Risk Society, Oxford 1998; Nancy Schultz, ed., Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture, West Lafayette 1999; Paul Newman, A History of Terror: Fear and Dread Through the Ages, New York 2000; and Robert Goldberg, Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America, New Haven 2001.
12. Some representative studies: Marina Warner, No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock, New York 1998; Jane Franklin, ed., The Politics of the Risk Society, Oxford 1998; Nancy Schultz, ed., Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture, West Lafayette 1999; Paul Newman, A History of Terror: Fear and Dread Through the Ages, New York 2000; and Robert Goldberg, Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America, New Haven 2001.
13. Barry Glassner, The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things, New York 1999, p. 203.
14. Los Angeles Times, 21 September 2001; and Reuters, 8 October 2001.
15. 'The Uncanny' (1919), in Volume 14: Art and Literature, The Penguin Freud Library, London 1985, p. 367.
16. Yolanda Gampel, 'The Interminable Uncanny', in Leo Rangell and Rena Moses-Hrushovski, eds, Psychoanalysis at the Political Border, Madison, 1996, pp. 85-96.
17. 'World's End' (1910); see Johannes Becher, 'On Jakob van Hoddis', in Paul Raabe, ed., The Era of German Expressionism, Woodstock 1985, pp. 44-45.
18. 'World's End' (1910); see Johannes Becher, 'On Jakob van Hoddis', in Paul Raabe, ed., The Era of German Expressionism, Woodstock 1985, pp. 44-45.
19. 'The uncanny [Unheimlich] is something which is secretly familiar [heimlich-heimisch], which has undergone repression and then returned from it . . .' 'The Uncanny', pp. 358 and 368.
20. 'These two stanzas, these eight lines [van Hoddis's poem] seem to have transformed us into different beings, to have carried us up out of a world of apathetic bourgeoisie which we despised . . .' Becher would call it the 'Marseillaise of the Expressionist Revolution': 'On Jakob van Hoddis', p. 44.
21. Qouted in Carol Eliel, The Apocalyptic Landscapes of Ludwig Meidner, Los Angeles 1989, pp. 65 and 72.
22. 'The Anxiety of the Engineer', in Literary Essays, Stanford 1998, pp. 306-8 and 312.
23. Principle of Hope, vol. 1, Cambridge, MA 1986, pp. 434-35.
24. Manhattan Transfer, New York 1925, p. 365. 'Skyscrapers go up like flames, in flames, flames': p. 253.
25. Manhattan Transfer, New York 1925, p. 365. 'Skyscrapers go up like flames, in flames, flames': p. 253.
26. Paul Avrich, Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background, Princeton 1991, p. 205.
27. Manhattan Transfer, pp. 366, 404.
28. Wayne Barrett, Rudy! An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani, New York 2000, p. 2.
29. Rudy!, p. 6.
30. Robert Fitch points out that the clearances for the WTC displaced 30,000 jobs and, through leveraging the development of adjacent Battery Park City, eliminated the critical lower Manhattan docks as well. 'Something had gone seriously wrong with the priorities and politics of a city where 30,000 people can be made to disappear from their jobs and stores for a state office building [the WTC is owned by the Port Authority].' The Assassination of New York, New York 1993, pp. 140-41.
31. For a sobering discussion of the costs of protecting Times Square, Grand Central, St. Patrick's Cathedral and the Statue of Liberty, see David Barstow, 'Envisioning an Expensive Future in the Brave New World of Fortress New York', New York Times, 16 September 2001.
32. 'Fiscal Disaster the City Can't Face Alone', New York Times, 9 October 2001.
33. ' In the new ethic of shared sacrifice, what sacrifice will he [the next mayor] ask of the business community? Neither Bloomberg nor Green could give me a satisfactory answer.' James Traub, 'No-Fun City', New York Times Magazine, 4 November 2001, p. 41.
34. 'Racist Fury in France' (1959), in Toward the African Revolution, New York 1967, p. 163.
35. 'Racist Fury in France' (1959), in Toward the African Revolution, New York 1967, p. 163.
36. Robert Worth, 'The Deep Intellectual Roots of Islamic Terror', New York Times, 13 October 2001; and Anthony Shadid, Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats, and the New Politics of Islam, Boulder 2001, p. 58. For a balanced assessment of Qutb's thought - a fascinating combination of anarcho-humanism and Koranic chiliasm - see Ahmad Moussali, Moderate and Radical Islamic Fundamentalism, Tallahassee 1999, chapter 5.
37. Robert Worth, 'The Deep Intellectual Roots of Islamic Terror', New York Times, 13 October 2001; and Anthony Shadid, Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats, and the New Politics of Islam, Boulder 2001, p. 58. For a balanced assessment of Qutb's thought - a fascinating combination of anarcho-humanism and Koranic chiliasm - see Ahmad Moussali, Moderate and Radical Islamic Fundamentalism, Tallahassee 1999, chapter 5.
38. Robert Worth, 'The Deep Intellectual Roots of Islamic Terror', New York Times, 13 October 2001; and Anthony Shadid, Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats, and the New Politics of Islam, Boulder 2001, p. 58. For a balanced assessment of Qutb's thought - a fascinating combination of anarcho-humanism and Koranic chiliasm - see Ahmad Moussali, Moderate and Radical Islamic Fundamentalism, Tallahassee 1999, chapter 5.
39. Worth, 'Roots of Islamic Terror'; Judith Shulevitz, 'The Close Reader: At War with the World', New York Times Book Review, 21 October 2001; and Legacy of the Prophet, p. 57. See also John Calvert, 'The World is an Undutiful Boy: Sayyid Qutb's American Experience', Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, vol. 11, no. 1, 2000.
40. Worth, 'Roots of Islamic Terror'; Judith Shulevitz, 'The Close Reader: At War with the World', New York Times Book Review, 21 October 2001; and Legacy of the Prophet, p. 57. See also John Calvert, 'The World is an Undutiful Boy: Sayyid Qutb's American Experience', Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, vol. 11, no. 1, 2000.
41. Worth, 'Roots of Islamic Terror'; Judith Shulevitz, 'The Close Reader: At War with the World', New York Times Book Review, 21 October 2001; and Legacy of the Prophet, p. 57. See also John Calvert, 'The World is an Undutiful Boy: Sayyid Qutb's American Experience', Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, vol. 11, no. 1, 2000.
42. Worth, 'Roots of Islamic Terror'; Judith Shulevitz, 'The Close Reader: At War with the World', New York Times Book Review, 21 October 2001; and Legacy of the Prophet, p. 57. See also John Calvert, 'The World is an Undutiful Boy: Sayyid Qutb's American Experience', Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, vol. 11, no. 1, 2000.
43. H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London 1898, p. 1.
44. Tally of hate crimes from Council on American-Islamic Relations, 22 October; murders, see Washington Post, 26 October 2001.
45. Karen Olsson, 'Letter from Dallas', Texas Observer, 12 October 2001.
46. Fanon, 'Racist Fury', p. 163.
47. 10 November 2001.