American Militarism w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj
The Dig
Is This Legal or Not Legal?
T'Alal Essent's work on the very capacity to suffer guilt is a sign of the liberal subject. I think it's complicated because my guess is it's also partly about a discourse of trauma at a certain moment, he says. He argues that if you look at the international laws of war, why does suicide bombing precipitate horror? Why has so much energy and thought and angst gone into trying to understand who is this terrorist?"
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