Indefensible space [electronic resource] : the architecture of the national insecurity state / edited by Michael Sorkin.
Contributor(s): Sorkin, Michael.
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BookPublisher: New York : Routledge, c2008Description: xvii, 398 p. : ill., map.ISBN: 9780203939482 (e-book : PDF).Subject(s): Terrorism -- United States -- Prevention | 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 opinionGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Click here to view Also available in print edition.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.
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