mit press ma october 2005 (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. What is the condition of the suspect in a post-9/11 world? Do perpetualdetention, ubiquitous surveillance cameras, and the legal apparatus of the USAPatriot Act target suspects accurately or generate suspicion indiscriminately?Suspect, the latest in a series from Alphabet City and the first in its new formatof topical book-length magazines, gathers hard evidence about the fate of thesuspect in a culture of suspicion with contributions from writers, artists, andfilmmakers.Their testimony takes a multiplicity of forms and formats. Among them: A24-page color comic by graphic novelist Joey Dubuc asks the reader to make narrativechoices in a web of surveillance, suspicion, and fear. Harper's contributor MarkKingwell observes that while suspicion tries to isolate the suspect, in fact we areall the suspect. Slavoj Zizek reflects on the new cultural status of the suspectafter Abu Ghraib. Philosopher George Bragues argues that even as the United Nationslooks for ways to discipline 'suspect nations,' it simply cannot succeed undercurrent international conditions. Alphabet City editor John Knechtel interviewsNaomi Klein, author of No Logo, about the legal and political strategies of the Bushadministration. Sylwia Chrostowska describes what happens, in the the 1970 Italianfilm Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, when a corrupt officialinvestigates himself. Screenwriter Timothy Stock and illustrator Warren Heise createa documentary in comic form about Critical Ensemble artist Steve Kurtz, chargedunder the bioterrorism provisions of the Patriot Act. Novelist Camilla Gibbportrays, in 'Things Collapse,' the terrifying effects of a 'separating sickness' ofunknown origin, which perhaps exists only in the fears of the population it strikes.And novelist Diana Fitzgerald Bryden follows her character Rafa Ahmed, a PFLPhijacker from the 1970s, as, many years later, she is to appear at a peaceconference. Filmmaker Patricia Rozema, director of Mansfield Park and other films, contributes a 16-page film-in-a-book, 'Suspect.' Suspect is a non-partisan handbookon the mechanisms and machinations of suspicion for the twenty-first centurynational security state. Essays, graphic novels, films, and commentary examine the figure of the suspect and the politics of suspicion in a post-9/11 world.