7-11, 9/11, and postpolitics

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Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 89-113

  Diken, Bülent ^a   Laustsen, Carsten Bagge ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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EID: 2442677616     PISSN: 03043754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030437540402900105     Document Type: Review

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1. Owen Bowcott, "Massive Flop: Ali G Fails to Win Respect in the US," Guardian, February 24, 2003.
2. Sean Macaulay, "US TV Last Week," Times, February 28, 2003.
3. Slavoj Žižek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real (London: Verso, 2002), p. 11.
4. Zygmunt Bauman uses the term adiaphorization to refer to the process of removing certain events and relationships from moral scrutiny; see esp. Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust (Cambridge: Polity, 1989), and idem, Modernity and Ambivalence (Cambridge: Polity, 1991).
5. Zygmunt Bauman uses the term adiaphorization to refer to the process of removing certain events and relationships from moral scrutiny; see esp. Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust (Cambridge: Polity, 1989), and idem, Modernity and Ambivalence (Cambridge: Polity, 1991).
6. Zygmunt Bauman, Society under Siege (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002), p. 13.
7. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia II (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987), p. 387.
8. Giorgio Agamben, "Heimliche Komplizen: Über Sicherheit und Terrer, " Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (September 20, 2001): 45.
9. Christopher Hanlon and Slavojv Žižek, "Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political: An Interview with Slavoj Žižek," http://spurious.typepad.com/spurious/zizek/index.html, 2001.
10. Enzensberger, "Die Wiederkehr des Mehschenopfers," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 18, 2001.
11. Jean Baudrillard, Fatal Strategies (Paris: Semiotext(e)/Pluto, 1990), 47; Bülent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen, "Indistinktion," Distinktion: Tidsskrift for Samfundsteori 4 (2002): 93-112, at 106.
12. Jean Baudrillard, Fatal Strategies (Paris: Semiotext(e)/Pluto, 1990), 47; Bülent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen, "Indistinktion," Distinktion: Tidsskrift for Samfundsteori 4 (2002): 93-112, at 106.
13. Thomas Homer-Dixon, "The Rise of Complex Terrorism," global policy.org/wtc/terrorism/2002/0115complex.
14. Mark Jürgensmeyer, Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), pp. 119-144.
15. Žižek, note 3, pp. 36-37.
16. James Der Derian, "9.11: Before, After, and in Between": ssrc.org/ sept11/essays/der_derian, 2001.
17. Der Derian, note 14; Homer-Dixon, note 11; Mike Davis, "The Flames of New York," New Left Review 12 (2001): 34-50, at 38.
18. Der Derian, note 14; Homer-Dixon, note 11; Mike Davis, "The Flames of New York," New Left Review 12 (2001): 34-50, at 38.
19. Der Derian, note 14; Homer-Dixon, note 11; Mike Davis, "The Flames of New York," New Left Review 12 (2001): 34-50, at 38.
20. Enzensberger, note 9.
21. Steven A. Carramota, quoted in Aristide Zolberg, "Guarding the Gates in a World on the Move," www.ssrc.org/sept11/essays/zolberg_text_ only, 2001.
22. Zolberg, ibid.
23. Bauman, note 5, p. 88.
24. Julian Reid, "The Contemporary Strategisation of City Spaces: Thoughts on the Relations between War, Power, and Transurbanism," paper presented at the "Cities as Strategic Sites" conference, Salford, U.K., November 6-8, 2002.
25. Ibid., p. 7.
26. Georg Simmel, "The Bridge and the Door," in Neil Leach, ed., Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory (London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 64-68, at 67.
27. Ulrich Beck, Ordenes Tavshed: Om Terror og Krig (Copenhagen: Hans Reitzels Forlag, 2002), pp. 41-42.
28. Zolberg, note 17.
29. Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations (New York: University of Columbia Press, 1995).
30. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000), p. 190.
31. Ibid., p. 187.
32. Michael Hardt, "Folly of Our Masters of the Universe," Guardian, December 18, 2002.
33. Deleuze and Guattari, note 6.
34. Edward Said, "'Islam' og 'Vesten' er falske kampråb," in Claus Clausen and Rasmus Ø. Madsen, eds., Tirsdag 11, September 2001: Eftertanker (Copenhagen: Tiderne Skifter, 2002), pp. 48-53; Noam Chomsky, 11. September (Copenhagen: Bindslev, 2002).
35. Edward Said, "'Islam' og 'Vesten' er falske kampråb," in Claus Clausen and Rasmus Ø. Madsen, eds., Tirsdag 11, September 2001: Eftertanker (Copenhagen: Tiderne Skifter, 2002), pp. 48-53; Noam Chomsky, 11. September (Copenhagen: Bindslev, 2002).
36. Immanuel Wallerstein, "America and the World: The Twin Towers as Metaphor": www.ssrc.org/sept11/essays/wallerstein, 2001.
37. Quoted ibid.
38. Arundhati Roy, "The Algebra of Infinite Justice," Guardian, September 29, 2001.
39. John Pilger, "A War in the American Tradition," New Statesman, October 15, 2001.
40. Žižek, note 3, p. 111.
41. Antonio Negri, "Comment on the Attack on the WTC and the War Against Terrorism": slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/24/10432092, 2001.
42. Bauman, note 5, p. 109.
43. Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998).
44. Žižek, note 3, p. 49.
45. Morris Berman, "Waiting for the Barbarians," Guardian, October 6, 2001.
46. Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000), p. 13.
47. Jean Baudrillard, The Spirit of Terrorism (London: Verso, 2002), p. 8.
48. Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil (London: Verso, 1993), p. 39.
49. I b i d.
50. Paul Virilio, Pure War (New York: Semiotex(e)/Columbia University Press, 1997), p. 39.
51. Žižek, note 3, p. 25.
52. Roy, note 33.
53. Nigel Thrift, "The Rise of Soft Capitalism," Cultural Values 1, no. 1 (1997): 29-57, at 39.
54. Bruno Latour, "On Actor-network Theory: A Few Clarifications," Soziale Welt 47 (1996): 369-38, 370.
55. Pepe Escobar, "Al'Qaeda's Global Terror Franchise," Asia Times, October 30, 2002.
56. Slavoj Žižek, "The (Mis) uses of Catastrophes," Distinktion 6 (2003): 143.
57. Bauman, note 5, pp. 99-102.
58. See David Lyon, Surveillance Society: Monitoring Everyday Life (Buckingham: Open University Press, 2001), p. 54.
59. Simon Marvin, "Military Urban Research Programmes: Normalising the Remote Control of Cities," paper presented at "Cities as Strategic Sites" conference, Salford, U.K., November 6-8, 2002.
60. See Jan Nederveen Pieterse, "Globalization as Hybridization," in Mike Featherstone, Scott Lash, and Roland Robertson, eds., Global Modernities (London: Sage, 1995), pp. 45-68.
61. See Benjamin R. Barber, Jihad vs. McWorld (New York: Ballantine Books, 1995).
62. Žižek, note 3, p. 38.
63. Ibid., p. 3.
64. Baudrillard, note 43, pp. 81-88.
65. Žižek, note 3, p. 40.
66. Ibid., pp. 40-41.
67. Carl Schmitt, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985), pp. 14, 26.
68. Carl Schmitt, The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes: Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996), p. 33.
69. Schmitt, note 62, p. 28.
70. Ibid., pp. 34-35.
71. Ibid., p. 8.
72. Ibid., p. 6.
73. Ellen Kennedy, "Carl Schmitt's Parlamentarismus in Its Historical Context," introduction to Schmitt, note 62, p. xvi.
74. Schmitt, note 62, p. 68.
75. Ibid., p. 70.
76. Slavoj Žižek, The Ticklish Subject (London: Verso, 1999), pp. 215-221.
77. Žižek, note 3, p. 19.
78. Baudrillard, note 43, p. 79.
79. Žižek, note 3, pp. 16-17.
80. Baudrillard, note 43, p. 76.
81. Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), p. 21.
82. George W. Bush, quoted in Richard Johnson, "Defending Ways of Life: The (Anti-) Terrorist Rhetorics of Bush and Blair," Theory, Culture, and Society 19, no. 4 (2002): 211-231, at 216.
83. Zygmunt Bauman, "Den eksplosive elendighed," in Clausen and Madsen, note 30, pp. 44-47.
84. Gopal Balakrishnan, The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt (London: Verso, 2000), pp. 228-229.
85. Quoted in Žižek, note 3, p. 91.
86. Ibid., pp. 93-94.
87. Slavoj Žižek, "Carl Schmitt in the Age of Post-Politics," in Chantal Mouffe, ed., The Challenge of Carl Schmitt (London: Verso, 1999), pp. 18-37, at 18; Balakrishnan, note 79, p. 110.
88. Slavoj Žižek, "Carl Schmitt in the Age of Post-Politics," in Chantal Mouffe, ed., The Challenge of Carl Schmitt (London: Verso, 1999), pp. 18-37, at 18; Balakrishnan, note 79, p. 110.
89. Žižek, note 82, p. 35.
90. Žižek, note 71, p. 208.
91. Žižek, note 82, p. 29.
92. Žižek, note 3, pp. 10-14.
93. Ibid., p. 15.
94. Ibid., p. 32.
95. Ibid., p. 16.
96. Ibid., pp. 23, 35.
97. Ibid., pp. 46-47 (italics in original).
98. Ibid., p. 108.
99. Agamben, note 38, p. 168.
100. See Žižek, note 3, p. 40.
101. Ibid., p. 110.
102. Schmitt, quoted in Balakrishnan, note 79, p. 113.
103. Baudrillard, note 42, p. 20.
104. Escobar, note 50.
105. Homer-Dixon, note 11.
106. Ulrich Beck, Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (London: Sage, 1992).
107. Ulrich Beck, Ordenes Tavshed: Om Terror og Krig (Copenhagen: Hans Reitzels Forlag, 2002).
108. Žižek, note 71, pp. 322-347.
109. Johnson, note 77, p. 223.
110. Ibid., p. 223.
111. Žižek, note 3, pp. 125-126.
112. Ibid., p. 43.
113. Salman Rushdie, "Den skjulte krig kan ikke vindes," Information, October 4, 2001.
114. Douglas Kellner, "September 11: Social Theory and Democratic Politics," Theory, Culture, and Society 19, no. 4 (2002): 147-159, at 154-155.
115. Joseba Zulaika, "The Self-Fulfilling Prophecies of Counterterrorism," Radical History Review 85 (2002): 191-199, at 198.
116. Žižek, note 3, p. 33.
117. Ibid., p. 137.
118. See Bauman, note 5, p. 94; Baudrillard, note 42, p. 34.
119. See Bauman, note 5, p. 94; Baudrillard, note 42, p. 34.