Target of opportunity: Networks, netwar, and narratives

Grey Room

Volumn , Issue 15, 2004, Pages 7-27

  Weber, Samuel ^a  

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EID: 67149139578     PISSN: 15263819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/1526381041165467     Document Type: Review

References (24)

1. Michael Dillon and Julian Reid, The Liberal Way of War (forthcoming). I wish to thank the authors, Michael Dillon and Julian Reid, for making their unpublished manuscript available to me
2. Admiral Arthur K. Cebrowski, in "An Interview with the Director," August 2002, http://www.cdi.org/mrp/tt-28oct02.pdf, 3
3. Cebrowski, 3
4. "The National Security Strategy of the United States," 17 September 2002; available from: http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/print/nssall.html
5. "National Security Strategy"; emphasis added
6. It should be noted that the attachment to creationism remains one of the strongest articles of faith of the Christian Right that forms a powerful constituency of the Bush administration. According to a poll taken in 1999, 79 percent of Americans felt that creationism should be taught in public schools. James Glanz, "Poll Finds That Support Is Strong for Teaching 2 Origin Theories," 11 March 2000; available from: http://www.umass.edu/journal/450/ creationism/poll-origin-theories.html
7. "National Security Strategy"; emphasis added
8. Mike Davis, "Slouching toward Baghdad ...," ZNet Foreign Policy, 28 February 2003; available from: http://www.zmag.org/content/ showarticle.cfm?SectionID=11&ItemID=3150
9. Davis
10. Arthur K. Cebrowski and John J. Garstka, "Network-Centric Warfare: Its Origin and Future," Proceedings of the Naval Institute 124, no. 1 (January 1998): 28-35
11. John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, Networks and Netwars (Santa Monica: Rand, 2001). Future references to this volume are indicated in the text body
12. Walter Benjamin, Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels, Gesammelte Schriften (GS 1), (Suhrkamp: Frankfurt am Main, 1980), 351; my translation
13. Walter Benjamin, Origin of the German Mourning Play (London: Verso Books, 1988), 188
14. Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism, trans. Katherine Jones (New York: Vintage Books, 1967), 137-38
15. Freud, 141
16. Freud, in a letter written in 1932 to Arnold Zweig, writes, "In the face of new persecutions, one once again has to ask how the Jew has become what he is and why he attracts such eternal hatred. I have found the following formula: Moses created the Jew and my work will have as its title, Moses, An Historical Novel." Cited in Michel de Certeau, L'écriture de l'histoire (Paris: Editions Gallimard, 1975), 314; my translation
17. It is only with Paul and Christianity that this guilt is, as it were, acknowledged and atoned for by the sacrificial death of Jesus. To be sure, the "acknowledgment" here is at the same time a disavowal, insofar as the death of Christ is attributed to others than those who founded their community on it. See Freud, 174
18. I have touched on the relation between such a lateral position, abseits, and Freud's discussion of the Uncanny in "The Sideshow: Remarks on a Canny Moment," in Samuel Weber, The Legend of Freud, 2nd ed. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), 207-38
19. Benjamin, Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels, GS 1, 343
20. Walter Benjamin, "The Storyteller," in Gesammelte Schriften (GS II.2), 457
21. Benjamin, "The Storyteller," 455
22. Benjamin, "The Storyteller," 453
23. Benjamin, "The Storyteller," 454
24. Freud, Der Mann Moses, 118