001477531 000__ 06071nam\a22008655i\4500 001477531 001__ 1477531 001477531 003__ DE-B1597 001477531 005__ 20231026034814.0 001477531 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001477531 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001477531 008__ 230103t20092009nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001477531 020__ $$a9780823238583 001477531 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823238583$$2doi 001477531 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)555210 001477531 035__ $$a(OCoLC)647876470 001477531 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001477531 0410_ $$aeng 001477531 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001477531 050_4 $$aHV6432.7$$b.R435 2009eb 001477531 072_7 $$aLIT004020$$2bisacsh 001477531 08204 $$a363.325$$222 001477531 1001_ $$aRedfield, Marc, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001477531 24514 $$aThe Rhetoric of Terror :$$bReflections on 9/11 and the War on Terror /$$cMarc Redfield. 001477531 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bFordham University Press, $$c[2009] 001477531 264_4 $$c©2009 001477531 300__ $$a1 online resource (148 p.) 001477531 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001477531 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001477531 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001477531 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001477531 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIntroduction: Spectral Life and the Rhetoric of Terror -- $$tPART I. Virtual Trauma -- $$t1. September 11 -- $$t2. Ground Zero -- $$t3. Like A Movie -- $$t4. The Gigantic -- $$t5. World Trade Center and United 93 -- $$t6. Virtual Trauma and True Mourning -- $$tPART II. War on Terror -- $$t1. The Sovereign and the Terrorist -- $$t2. Sovereignty at War -- $$t3. Terror -- $$t4. Terror in Letters -- $$t5. Romanticism and the War on Terror -- $$t6. Toward Perpetual Peace -- $$tNotes -- $$tIndex 001477531 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001477531 520__ $$aThe terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, did symbolic as well as literal damage. A trace of this cultural shock echoes in the American idiom "9/11": a bare name-date conveying both a trauma (the unspeakable happened then) and a claim on our knowledge. In the first of the two interlinked essays making up The Rhetoric of Terror, Marc Redfield proposes the notion of "virtual trauma" to 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 in texts, discussions, and films, such as World Trade Center and United 93.In the second half of the book, Redfield examines the historical and philosophical infrastructure of the notion of "war on terror." Redfield 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 a crazed, even in a certain sense fictional performative utterance. Only a pseudosovereign-the executive officer of the world's superpower-could have declared this absolute, phantasmatic, yet terribly damaging war. 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.A moving, wide-ranging, and rigorous meditation on the cultural tragedy of our era, The Rhetoric of Terror also unfolds as an act of mourning for Jacques Derrida. Derrida's groundbreaking philosophical analysis of iterability-iterability as the exposure to repetition with a difference elsewhere that makes all technics, signification, and psychic life possible-helps us understand why questions of mediation and aesthetics so rapidly become so fraught in our culture; why efforts to repress our essential political, psychic, and ontological vulnerability generate recursive spasms of violence; why ethical living-together involves uninsurable acts of hospitality. 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