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In Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence, Judith Butler argues that 9/11 produced a “dislocation” of “First World privilege” for citizens of the United States. Watching the events of 9/11, the “secure” in the first world were exposed to a feeling of vulnerability that is usually experienced in “failed states” and “disaster zones.” For Butler, this dislocation of first world privilege does not have to result in acts of violent protection or retaliation:
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Judith Butler, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (London: Verso, 2004), p. xii.
For an exploration of these “other passages” see Giovanna Borradori, Philosophy In A Time of Terror: Dialogues With Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003).
See James Der Derian, Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment-Network (New York: Westview Press, 2001).
Jean Baudrillard, The Spirit of Terrorism (London: Verso, 2003), p. 47.
Felix Guattari, The Three Ecologies (London: Athlone, 2000), p. 50.
Roland Barthes, Mythologies (London: Fontana Press, 1993), p. 92.
Charles Krauthammer, “Voices of Moral Obtuseness,” in The Iraqi War Reader, eds. Micah L. Sifry and Christopher Cerf (London: Touchstone, 2003), p. 218.
See Cynthia Weber’s discussion of Moore and Liscombe in Imagining America at War (London: Routledge, 2005).
For a useful introduction to “affect” see Clare Colebrook, Gilles Deleuze (London: Routledge, 2001).
Paul Virilio, Cinema and War: The Logistics of Perception (London: Verso, 1998), p. 33.
For an introduction into superheroes and cultural theory see Scott Bukatman, Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century (London: Duke University Press, 2003).
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (London: Penguin, 1998), p. 84.
Paul Virilio, “The Strategy of the Beyond,” in The Virilio Reader, ed. James Der Derian (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1998), p. 90.
Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended (London: Penguin, 2004), p. 246.
Barbara Adam, “Re-Vision: The Centrality of Time for an Ecological Social Science Perspective,” in Risk, Environment and Modernity, eds. Scott Lash, Bronislaw Szerszynski and Brian Wynne (London: Sage, 1996), p. 97.
This idea is developed in Mark J. Lacy, Security and Climate Change; International Relations and the Limits of Realism (London: Routledge, 2005).
See, e.g., Michael Klare, Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Petroleum Dependence (London: Penguin, 2005).
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Lacy, M.J. (2007). Responsibility and Terror: Visual Culture and Violence in the Precarious Life. In: Dauphinee, E., Masters, C. (eds) The Logics of Biopower and the War on Terror. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-04379-5_4
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