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Archive of Thinking Past Terror

    Verso Books
    25 September 2017
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    Video: Susan Buck-Morss — Global Civil War: Solidarity by Proxy

    In the twenty-first century any world war is a civil war, and any civil war affects the world. Does this mean the end of the Age of Revolutions, or a whole new understanding of what revolution entails?

    Timothy Mitchell
    07 June 2017
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    McJihad: Empire and Islam between The US and Saudi Arabia

    It has become popular today to say that we live in an era of what Benjamin Barber has labelled "Jihad vs. McWorld." The globalising powers of capitalism ("McWorld") are confronted with or resisted by the forces that Barber labels "Jihad" — the variety of tribal particularisms and "narrowly conceived faiths" opposed to the homogenising force of capital. Even those with a critical view of the growth of American empire and the expansion of what is erroneously termed the global market usually subscribe to this interpretation. In fact it is the critics who often argue that we need a better understanding of these local forms of resistance against the "universal" force of the market.

    The terms of this debate are quite misleading. We live in an age, to adapt Barber’s nomenclature, of "McJihad." It is an age in which the mechanisms of what we call capitalism appear to operate, in certain critical instances, only by adopting the social force and moral authority of conservative Islamic movements. It may be true that we need a better understanding of the local forces that oppose the globalisation of capital; but, more than this, we need a better understanding of the so-called global forces of capital.

    Sohail Daulatzai
    21 December 2016
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    Perpetual War and Permanent Unrest: The Battle of Algiers After 9/11

    This essay is excerpted from Sohail Daulatzai's Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers: Past as Prologue, published by the University of Minnesota Press.

    Arun Kundnani
    06 October 2016
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    Rationale for Surveillance: the CAGE report on the 'radicalisation' study underpinning Prevent

    Anne Rumberger
    28 June 2016
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    Post Orlando / Post Brexit Anti-Islamophobia Reading List

    Kieran O'Connor
    07 July 2015
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    Arun Kundnani on rethinking radicalisation and extremism since 7/7

    22 June 2015
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    I am the author of The Coming Insurrection

    Mike Watson
    29 April 2015
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    'Response to Rancière'

    Mike Watson
    25 March 2015
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    Fanatical counter-histories: A conversation with Alberto Toscano

    Mike Watson
    17 February 2015
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    'Religion: a private affair?' A rebuttal of a commonplace idea by Christine Delphy

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