Enero 13, 2007
gudriai rašo
kaip tik apie tai - paranoją, karą, kuris tolygus taikai, ir atvirkščiai, pastovią emergency padėtį - galvojau europos oro uostuose, o čia gudrus vienas tekstas.
žižekas apie penkmetį po rugsėjo 11-os.
The power which presents itself as being all the time under threat and thus merely defending itself against an invisible enemy, exposes itself to the danger of manipulation: can we really trust them, or are they just evoking the threat to discipline and control us? The paradoxical result of this spectralization of the Enemy can thus be a reversal of role: in this world without a clearly identified Enemy, it is the US themselves, the protector against the threat, which is emerging as the main enemy... as in Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient-Express in which, since the entire group of the suspects is the murderer, the victim itself (an evil millionaire) should turn out to be the criminal.
The lesson is thus that, in combating terror, it is more crucial than ever for the state politics to be democratically transparent. Unfortunately, we are now paying the price for the cobweb of lies and manipulations by the US and UK governments in the last decade, reaching their climax in the tragicomedy with the Iraqi weapons of mass destructions. Recall the August 2006 alert apropos the thwarted terrorist attempt to blow a dozen planes on their flight from London to the US: no doubt the alert was not a fake, to claim this would be too paranoiac - but, nonetheless, a suspicion remains that all of it was a self-serving spectacle to accustom us to a permanent state of emergency, to the state of exception as a way of life. What space for manipulation open up such events where all that is publicly visible are the anti-terrorist measures themselves?
Posted by kpmg at Enero 13, 2007 1:39 PM 
Comments
ash tai shen atsiverchiau foreign policy sept/oct numery, ir atradau ten ta pacia nuvalkiota 9/11 tema, tik visai neprastu autoriu, kurie kartu su manim nusistebejo kaip niekas is principo labai ir nepasikeite; na gal tos smulkmenos su emergenciais, bet we all saw it coming - bent as tai nuo kokiu 1999. big brotheriui reikia tik grazaus reasono piarui, o visa kita ateina savaime.
Posted by: rzr at Enero 17, 2007 9:18 PM