October 31, 2005
Call for Papers: TERROR / WAR PAPERS:
INTERROGATING THE PARADIGM
"This book aims to interrogate a paradigm of contemporary reality summed up in the terms 'terror war' and 'war on terror'. Over the past few years, this paradigm has roped together the terms 'terror' and 'war' into a new globalised conglomerate of economy, bureaucracy, military, law, media, conflict, penality, and deceit. It has changed governments, generated new agencies and laws, captured media attention (whilst undermining its independence), incarcerated thousands, and killed tens of thousands (minimum) across the world. It delivers a reality so predominant, that it has been described as a potentially "endless war". Without denying the reality of victims of terrorism and war, this collection aims to open up a space for interrogating the paradigm. By intervening in the popularised relation of these terms - terror/war - this collection will question their dominance over alternative means of understanding contemporary realities and risks."
http://www.ccs.mq.edu.au/staff_dstaines.php
| Dr. Deborah Staines thanks Diederik
>related via Google Image Search "war on terror":
[one of 2,000 .mil war+on+terror photographs)
ENGAGING THE ENEMY — Marines of 4th Battalion, 14th Marines Mike Battery, Gun 4, receive the command to engage enemy targets with a M-198 155mm Howitzer at Camp Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 11, 2004. The command was called in by fellow Marines in the city of Fallujah during Operation Al Fajar (New Dawn).
~Five years ago would we have imagined that a howitzer 'engaging enemy targets' in a city was a way to stop terrorism, if we thought about terrorism at all? Monty Pythons' Mosquito Hunters sketch might've come to mind.
I only now noticed that I could've used the word "terror" instead of terrorism and most of you would've understood. That's new too.