Security and TerrorAuthor :
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Published : Friday 11 May 2018
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When in 1492 Christopher Columbus set out for Asia but instead happened upon the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola, his error inaugurated a specifically colonial modernity. This is,A Security and TerrorA contends, the colonial modernity within which we still live. And its enduring features are especially vivid in the current American century, a moment marked by a permanent War on Terror and pervasive capitalist dispossession.A Resisting the assumption that September 11, 2001, constituted a historical rupture, Eli Jelly-Schapiro traces the political and philosophic genealogies of security and terrorâ?"from the settler-colonization of the New World to the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond.A A history of the present crisis,A Security and TerrorA also examines how that history has been registered and reckoned with in significant works of contemporary fiction and theoryâ?"in novels byA Teju Cole, Mohsin Hamid, Junot DA-az, and Roberto BolaA±o,A and in the critical interventions of Jean Baudrillard, Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, and others. In this richly interdisciplinary inquiry, Jelly-Schapiro reveals how the erasure of colonial pasts enables the perpetual reproduction of colonial culture.
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