Marc Redfield

The Rhetoric of Terror

Reflections on 9/11 and the War on Terror

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Produktbeschreibung

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, did symbolic as well as literal damage. A trace of this cultural shock echoes in the bare name-date 9/11.Marc Redfield proposes the notion virtual traumato describe the cultural wound that this name-date both deflects and relays. Virtual trauma describes the shock of an event at once terribly real and utterly mediated. In consequence, a tormented self-reflexivity has tended to characterize representations of 9/11. Redfield further examines the historical and philosophical infrastructure of the notion war on terror.He argues that the declaration of war on terror is the exemplary postmodern sovereign speech act: it unleashes war as terror and terror as war, while remaining in a certain sense a fictional performative utterance. Though politicized terror and absolute war have their roots in the French Revolution and the emergence of the modern nation-state, Redfield suggests that the idea of a war on terror relays the complex, spectral afterlife of sovereignty in an era of biopower, global capital, and telecommunication.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 147mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780823231232
• ISBN-10: 0823231232
• Artikelnr.: 26611542

Autorenporträt

Marc Redfield is Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and German at Brown University. His most recent books are The Rhetoric of Terror: Reflections on 9/11 and the War on Terror (Fordham University Press, 2009) and Theory at Yale: The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America (Fordham University Press, 2016).