Enduring Freedom: War, Corporate Television, and the Delusion of the Delusion

Gerhard RİCHTER

Makale detayları

Enduring Freedom: War, Corporate Television, and the Delusion of the Delusion

Yazarlar:

Gerhard RİCHTER

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Ana Başlıklar:

Edebiyat

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2001 Issue 14, pp.35-50

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

9/2001

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000735094

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606

Özet:

 

When the policy and propaganda divisions of the current Bush Administration set out to  generate a rhetoric that could be mobilized to inaugurate a new “foreign policy” in the wake  of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, they inadvertently radicalized Friedrich  Nietzsche’s concept of truth as a “moveable army of metaphors and metonymies” by  instrumentalizing this concept to achieve a clearly stated set of interlocking stratagems: to  reinterpret the meaning of “terrorism,” to establish precedent for the disregard of international  law and the will of the electorate, and to rule the global community by force.[1] In the months  leading up to the second Gulf War, elements of this rhetoric were mobilized to justify any  number of highly questionable maneuvers, ranging from the attack on Afghanistan to the  inhumane treatment of Taliban detainees at Guantánamo Bay, a treatment that was legitimized  by the Administration through a particularly narrow and aberrant interpretation of the Geneva  Convention, limiting POW status—and, effectively, the human rights of prisoners—to  combatants deriving from conventionally recognized nation states.

Makale detayları

Enduring Freedom: War, Corporate Television, and the Delusion of the Delusion

Yazarlar: Gerhard RİCHTER

Yayıncı: American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Ana Başlıklar: Edebiyat

Dergi: Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2001 Issue 14, pp.35-50

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 9/2001

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000735094

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

pISSN: 1300-6606

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Gerhard RİCHTER

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Ana Başlıklar:

Edebiyat

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2001 Issue 14, pp.35-50

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

9/2001

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000735094

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606