Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of WarVerso, 2005 M06 17 - 211 páginas Afflicted Powers is an account of world politics since September 11, 2001. It aims to confront the perplexing doubleness of the present’s lethal mixture of atavism and new-fangledness. The world careers backward into forms of ideological and geo-political combat that call to mind the Scramble for Africa, and the Wars of Religion. But this brute return of the past is accompanied by an equally monstrous political deployment of (and entrapment in) the apparatus of a hyper-modern production of appearances. Capital is on the move again. In the Middle East and elsewhere it is attempting, nakedly, a new round of primitive accumulation and enclosure. Now, however, it is obliged to do so in unprecedented circumstances. Never before has imperialist victory or defeat depended so much on a struggle for hegemony in the world of images; never before has the dominant world power been subject to real catastrophe in the realm of the spectacle. The present turn to empire and enclosure, what Retort terms military neo-liberalism, is confronted not only by various forms of radical Islam but by a new kind of vanguard armed with the toolkit of spectacular politics. This book attempts to rethink certain key aspects of the current global struggle within this overall perspective, and to provide some critical support for present and future oppositions. Its main themes are the spectacle and September 11, blood for oil, permanent war and illusory peace, the US–Israel relationship, revolutionary Islam, and modernity and terror. |
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... Typeset in Garamond Printed in the UK by CPI Bath Frontispiece image , page vi : Unidentified Iraqi ( by some reports Detainee # 18470 ) under torture by US forces , Abu Ghraib prison , 2003 . In memory of Michael Rogin 1937-2001.
... Typeset in Garamond Printed in the UK by CPI Bath Frontispiece image , page vi : Unidentified Iraqi ( by some reports Detainee # 18470 ) under torture by US forces , Abu Ghraib prison , 2003 . In memory of Michael Rogin 1937-2001.
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... force . The book's stance is deliberately polemical , in the tradition ( we hope ) of the pamphleteering characteristic of the Left in its heyday . On occa- sion we turned aside in the course of our writing - for encouragement , but ...
... force . The book's stance is deliberately polemical , in the tradition ( we hope ) of the pamphleteering characteristic of the Left in its heyday . On occa- sion we turned aside in the course of our writing - for encouragement , but ...
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... force was born into out of the - 2 See Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri , Empire , Cambridge , MA 2000 , and Hardt and Negri , Multitude , New York 2004. We borrow the term " multitude ” , which Hardt and Negri recover from Spinoza's ...
... force was born into out of the - 2 See Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri , Empire , Cambridge , MA 2000 , and Hardt and Negri , Multitude , New York 2004. We borrow the term " multitude ” , which Hardt and Negri recover from Spinoza's ...
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... force . The cause of war was either the perfidy and dementia of rulers , or the crude imperative of Oil . It was hard to remember on February 15 that one defining feature of the political landscape during the previous decade had been ...
... force . The cause of war was either the perfidy and dementia of rulers , or the crude imperative of Oil . It was hard to remember on February 15 that one defining feature of the political landscape during the previous decade had been ...
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... forces and arrangements called " capitalism " as a magical shaping power , pulling the strings of everything in the world around us . We take it to be an indis- pensable term of analysis for much the same reasons as do the Wall Street ...
... forces and arrangements called " capitalism " as a magical shaping power , pulling the strings of everything in the world around us . We take it to be an indis- pensable term of analysis for much the same reasons as do the Wall Street ...
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THE STATE THE SPECTACLE AND SEPTEMBER 11 | 16 |
BLOOD FOR OIL? | 38 |
PERMANENT WAR | 78 |
THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION | 108 |
REVOLUTIONARY ISLAM | 132 |
MODERNITY AND TERROR | 171 |
ENDNOTE | 197 |
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Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War Iain A. Boal,T.J. Clark,Joseph Matthews,Michael Watts Sin vista previa disponible - 2005 |
Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War Iain A. Boal,T.J. Clark,Joseph Matthews,Michael Watts Sin vista previa disponible - 2005 |
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