Indefensible space the architecture of the national insecurity state / [electronic resource] :
edited by Michael Sorkin.
- New York : Routledge, c2008.
- xvii, 398 p. : ill., map.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the fear factor / Michael Sorkin -- 2. Cities and the 'war on terror' / Stephen Graham -- 3. Empire of the insensate / Steven Flusty -- Urban operations and network centric warfare / M. Christine Boyer -- Planet America : empire's new land grab / Mark L. Gillem -- Waiting in African cities / Abdoumaliq Simone -- Border tours : strategies of surveillance, tactics of encroachment / Teddy Cruz -- Restating the obvious / Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore -- The threat from within : protecting the indefensible from the indeterminate / Kathi Holt-Damant -- Blank slates and disaster zones : the state, September 11, and the displacement of Chinatown / Laura Y. Liu -- Back to zero : mourning in America / Michael Sorkin -- The new emotions of home : fear, insecurity, and paranoia / Setha M. Low -- Stage authenticity today / Dean MacCannell -- Architecture emblematic : hardened sites and softened symbols / Trevor Boddy -- Me and my monkey : what's hiding in the security state / Cindi Katz -- Thanatotactics / Eyal Weizman -- "The poor man's airforce" : a brief history of the car bomb / Mike Davis.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
9780203939482 (e-book : PDF)
Terrorism--Prevention.--United States
National security--United States.
Civil defense--United States.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
Fear--Social aspects--United States.
Paranoia--Social aspects--United States.
United States--Defenses--Public opinion.
Electronic books.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the fear factor / Michael Sorkin -- 2. Cities and the 'war on terror' / Stephen Graham -- 3. Empire of the insensate / Steven Flusty -- Urban operations and network centric warfare / M. Christine Boyer -- Planet America : empire's new land grab / Mark L. Gillem -- Waiting in African cities / Abdoumaliq Simone -- Border tours : strategies of surveillance, tactics of encroachment / Teddy Cruz -- Restating the obvious / Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore -- The threat from within : protecting the indefensible from the indeterminate / Kathi Holt-Damant -- Blank slates and disaster zones : the state, September 11, and the displacement of Chinatown / Laura Y. Liu -- Back to zero : mourning in America / Michael Sorkin -- The new emotions of home : fear, insecurity, and paranoia / Setha M. Low -- Stage authenticity today / Dean MacCannell -- Architecture emblematic : hardened sites and softened symbols / Trevor Boddy -- Me and my monkey : what's hiding in the security state / Cindi Katz -- Thanatotactics / Eyal Weizman -- "The poor man's airforce" : a brief history of the car bomb / Mike Davis.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
9780203939482 (e-book : PDF)
Terrorism--Prevention.--United States
National security--United States.
Civil defense--United States.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
Fear--Social aspects--United States.
Paranoia--Social aspects--United States.
United States--Defenses--Public opinion.
Electronic books.