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0823281671 epub In the United States, the early years of the war on terror were marked by the primacy of affects like fear and insecurity. These aligned neatly with the states drive toward intensive securitization and an aggressive foreign policy. But for the broader citizenry, such affects were tolerable at best and unbearable at worst they were not sustainable. Figuring Violence catalogs the affects that define the latter stages of this war and the imaginative work that underpins them. These affectsapprehension, affection, admiration, gratitude, pity, and righteous angerare far more subtle and durable than their predecessors, rendering them deeply compatible with the ambitions of a state embroiling itself in a perpetual and unwinnable war. Surveying the cultural landscape of this sprawling conflict, Read more