LEADER 04674nam 2200817 a 450 001 9910962640203321 005 20240513184806.0 010 $a9786613058430 010 $a9781283058438 010 $a128305843X 010 $a9780226532615 010 $a0226532615 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226532615 035 $a(CKB)2560000000050397 035 $a(EBL)655800 035 $a(OCoLC)703175931 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000467749 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12212520 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000467749 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10489588 035 $a(PQKB)10682787 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC655800 035 $a(DE-B1597)524384 035 $a(OCoLC)1135592261 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226532615 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL655800 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10444600 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL305843 035 $a(Perlego)1851855 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000050397 100 $a20100408d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|uu|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCloning terror $ethe war of images, 9/11 to the present /$fW.J.T. Mitchell 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago ;$aLondon $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a9780226532608 311 0 $a0226532607 311 0 $a9780226532592 311 0 $a0226532593 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface. For a War on Error --$t1. War Is Over (If You Want It) --$t2. Cloning Terror --$t3. Clonophobia --$t4. Autoimmunity Picturing Terror --$t5. The Unspeakable and the Unimaginable --$t6. Biopictures --$t7. The Abu Ghraib Archive --$t8. Documentary Knowledge and Image Life --$t9. State of the Union, or Jesus Comes to Abu Ghraib --$tConclusion. A Poetics of the Historical Image --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aThe phrase "War on Terror" has quietly been retired from official usage, but it persists in the American psyche, and our understanding of it is hardly complete. Nor will it be, W. J. T Mitchell argues, without a grasp of the images that it spawned, and that spawned it. Exploring the role of verbal and visual images in the War on Terror, Mitchell finds a conflict whose shaky metaphoric and imaginary conception has created its own reality. At the same time, Mitchell locates in the concept of clones and cloning an anxiety about new forms of image-making that has amplified the political effects of the War on Terror. Cloning and terror, he argues, share an uncanny structural resemblance, shuttling back and forth between imaginary and real, metaphoric and literal manifestations. In Mitchell's startling analysis, cloning terror emerges as the inevitable metaphor for the way in which the War on Terror has not only helped recruit more fighters to the jihadist cause but undermined the American constitution with "faith-based" foreign and domestic policies. Bringing together the hooded prisoners of Abu Ghraib with the cloned stormtroopers of the Star Wars saga, Mitchell draws attention to the figures of faceless anonymity that stalk the ever-shifting and unlocatable "fronts" of the War on Terror. A striking new investigation of the role of images from our foremost scholar of iconology, Cloning Terror will expand our understanding of the visual legacy of a new kind of war and reframe our understanding of contemporary biopower and biopolitics. 606 $aWar on Terrorism, 2001-2009$vArt and the war 606 $aWar on Terrorism, 2001-2009, in mass media 606 $aWar on Terrorism, 2001-2009$xPsychological aspects 606 $aVisual communication$xPsychological aspects 606 $aVisual communication$xPolitical aspects 606 $aOral communication$xPsychological aspects 606 $aOral communication$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aWar on Terrorism, 2001-2009 615 0$aWar on Terrorism, 2001-2009, in mass media. 615 0$aWar on Terrorism, 2001-2009$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aVisual communication$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aVisual communication$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aOral communication$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aOral communication$xPolitical aspects. 676 $a973.931 700 $aMitchell$b W. J. T$g(William John Thomas),$f1942-$01805044 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910962640203321 996 $aCloning terror$94366878 997 $aUNINA