"Drawing on psychoanalytic and semiotic perspectives, this book examines discourses mediating the global War on Terror, including governmental speeches, legal documents, print and broadcast journalism, and military memoirs.
The book argues that these discourses motivate, and are motivated by, a myth of imminent harm that purportedly justifies a series of ""preemptive"" measures such as war, torture, and targeted killing, as well as an array of intrusive domestic security procedures such as profiling and mass surveillance. Dominant themes include selective compassion in the mainstream media, the language of war and the sacrificial sublime, asymmetrical warfare and the nostalgia for total war, weaponized drones and just war theory, and the role of American exceptionalism in normalizing endless war.
Scholars and students alike will take interest in this original contribution to the fields of cultural studies, psychoanalysis, media studies, rhetoric, critical international relations, and international humanitarian law and ethics."
By:
Vaheed Ramazani
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367554064
ISBN 10: 0367554062
Series: Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 17 November 2020
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
,
A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
"1. Introduction: ""No Moment for Deliberation"" 2. War Fatigue: Ethics in Reporting on Afghanistan and Iraq 3. War, Simulation, and the Sacrificial Sublime 4. Exceptionalism, Metaphor, and Hybrid Warfare 5. Killer Drones and the Language of International Law"
Vaheed Ramazani is the Kathryn B. Gore Professor of French Studies at Tulane University. His research interests include French literature and culture, critical theory, and critical international relations. He is the author of The Free Indirect Mode: Flaubert and the Poetics of Irony (Virginia) and Writing in Pain: Literature, History, and the Culture of Denial (Palgrave).
