The Dig: Combat Trauma w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj
Jacobin Radio
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The Language of the Emergency Is Intervening
Slava Zizek has named subjective violence, the spectacular violence. What is overlooked in such endless attention to the emergency, he insists, is the objective or structural violence that undergirds it. In this instance, imperial power and hubris enables the United States to conduct its war so very far from home,. But this is like very much the perfect ethical sensibility for the 1990s.
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