Afflicted powers : capital and spectacle in a new age of war / Retort.

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Retort (Organization : San Francisco, Calif.)

Contributor(s):

Boal, Iain A

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Verso, 2006.Edition: new edDescription: xii, 211 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cmISBN:

9781844670314

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DDC classification:

909.83 22

Contents:

Introduction -- The state, the spectacle, and September 11 -- Blood for oil? -- Permanent war -- The future of an illusion -- Revolutionary Islam -- Modernity and terror.

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Retort is a gathering of some thirty or forty antagonists of the pre sent order of things, based for the past two decades in the San Francis co Bay. Four of the group Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews, Micha el Watts did the main work of writing Afflicted Powers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-201) and index.

Introduction -- The state, the spectacle, and September 11 -- Blood for oil? -- Permanent war -- The future of an illusion -- Revolutionary Islam -- Modernity and terror.

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