Targets of opportunity: On the militarization of thinking

Targets of Opportunity: On the Militarization of Thinking

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-152

  Weber, Samuel ^a  

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References (47)

1. "Lesser Hippias," trans. Benjamin Jowett, in Plato: The Collected Dialogues (New York: Pantheon Books, 1961), 213.
2. Barton Gellmann and Dana Priest, " 'Target of Opportunity' Seized," Washington Post, March 20, 2003.
3. R. A. Hewitt, "Target of Opportunity: Tales and Contrails of the Second World War," MS., 2000.
4. Jean-Luc Nancy, "Dies Irae," in Jacques Derrida et al., La Faculté de juger (Paris: Minuit, 1980), 41; unless otherwise specified, this and all other translations are my own.
5. Stephen Halliwell, Aristotle's Poetics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), 216.
6. H.-P. Stahl, Thucydides: Man's Place in History (Llandysul, Ceredigion, Wales: The Classical Press of Wales, 2003), 52.
7. My translation of the German version by Friedrich Hö lderlin, Sämtliche Werke (Basel: Stroemfeld/Roter Stern, 1988), 245.
8. Jacques Derrida, Aporias, trans. Thomas Dutoit (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993), 43.
9. Manfred Dahlheimer, Der deutsche Katholizismus, 1888-1936 (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schö ningh, 1999), 111.
10. Cited in Gopal Balakrishnan, The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt (London:Verso, 2000), 274-75.
11. Carl Schmitt, Politische Theologie, (Berlin: Duncker & Humboldt, 1985), 69.
12. Das Grosse Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, 2d ed., vol. 6 (Mannheim:Duden, 1994), 2761.
13. Schmitt, Politische Theologie, 41-42.
14. Friedrich Nietzsche, Kritische Gesamtausgabe, 3.1 (1872-1874), ed. G. Colli and M. Montinari (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1971), 242. Future references will appear in the text.
15. Letter of December 28, 1914, cited in Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, (London: Hogarth Press, 1967), 2:413.
16. Sigmund Freud, "Triebe und Triebschicksale," GW, 10:214-15.
17. Carl Schmitt, Der Begriff des Politischen, 34, n.10.
18. Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International, trans. Peggy Kamuf (New York:Routledge, 1994), 193.
19. Sigmund Freud, "Die Verneinung," GW, 14:12.
20. For the ramifications of such a "network," see chapters 4-6 of this book.
21. Sigmund Freud, "Hemmung, Symptom und Angst," GW, 14:151.
22. Jacques Derrida, Without Alibi, trans. Peggy Kamuf (Stanford:Stanford University Press, 2002), 238-80. Further page numbers will be given in the text.
23. GW 14:218.
24. For this reason, I would prefer to translate Kafka's title as The Man Who Went Missing rather than The Man Who Disappeared.
25. Sigmund Freud, Totem and Taboo (New York: Norton), 176; GW 9:171-72. Further page numbers will be given in the text.
26. GW 14:140.
27. GW 14:151.
28. See my discussion of the role of "binding" in ego formation and its relation to language in The Legend of Freud, 75-85.
29. http://www.whitehouse/gov/nsc/print/nssall.html, 7, 15.
30. One increasingly used phrase that suggests the tenor of this phenomenon is the often-stressed need to "move forward" and not remain mired in the mud of history.
31. Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (New York: Basic Books, 1998).
32. Mike Davis, "Slouching Toward Baghdad . . ." Znet Foreign Policy, http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID= 11&ItemID=3150.
33. Arthur K. Cebrowski and John J. Garstka, "Network-Centric Warfare: Its Origin and Future," Naval Institute Proceedings, 1998, http://www.usni.org/Proceedings/Articles98/PROcebrowski.htm.
34. John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, Networks and Netwars (Santa Monica, Calif.: Rand, 2001). Future references will appear in the body of the text.
35. "The boundaries of the network, or of any node included in it, may be well-defined, or blurred and porous in relation to the outside environment" (Arquilla and Ronfeldt, Networks and Netwars, 8).
36. Walter Benjamin, Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels, Gesammelte Schriften, vol. 1 (Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1980).
37. Walter Benjamin, "Der Erzähler," Gesammelte Schriften, 2.2:457.
38. It is difficult here not to hear the echoes of the Nazi slogan "Ein Reich-ein Volk-ein Führer!"
39. Walter Benjamin, "Der Erzähler," Gesammelte Schriften (Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1980), 2.2:453. (Hereafter GS.)
40. GS 6:100-103.
41. GS 1.1:308ff.
42. GS 1.1:504.
43. Selected Writings, 1:203.
44. "Law [Das Recht] condemns not to punishment but to guilt. Destiny is the guilt-nexus [Schuldzusammenhang] of the living" (GS 2.1:175, 204).
45. GS 6:101. The English translation misreads Reife, which it renders as "immaturity," Unreife (Selected Writings, 1:289).
46. Friedrich Hö lderlin, "Anmerkungen zur Antigonä," Hölderlin:Werke und Briefe, ed. F. Beißner and Jochen Schmidt (Frankfurt a. M.:Suhrkamp, 1969), 2:789.
47. Jean-Luc Nancy, Ê tre singulier pluriel (Paris: Galilée, 1996); Being Singular Plural, trans. Robert D. Richardson and Anne E. O'Byrne (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000).