Cloning Terror The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present

Name: Cloning Terror The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present
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ISBN: 9780226532608

ISBN-10: 0226532607

ISBN-13: 9780226532608

Edition: 2010

Authors: W. J. T. Mitchell

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The phrase "War on Terror" has quietly been retired from official usage, but it persists in the American psyche, and our understanding of it is hardly complete. Nor will it be, W. J. T Mitchell argues, without a grasp of the images that it spawned, and that spawned it. Exploring the role of verbal and visual images in the War on Terror, Mitchell finds a conflict whose shaky metaphoric and imaginary conception has created its own reality. At the same time, Mitchell locates in the concept of clones and cloning an anxiety about new forms of image-making that has amplified the political effects of the War on Terror. Cloning and terror, he argues, share an uncanny structural resemblance,…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.85" long x 0.05" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

W. J. T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, the Department of Art History, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is also coeditor of the journal Critical Inquiry.



List of Illustrations


Preface. For a War on Error



War Is Over (If You Want It)



Cloning Terror



Clonophobia



Autoimmunity: Picturing Terror



The Unspeakable and the Unimaginable



Biopictures



The Abu Ghraib Archive



Documentary Knowledge and Image Life



State of the Union, or Jesus Comes to Abu Ghraib


Conclusion. A Poetics of the Historical Image


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index