60 George W. Bush's speech to a joint session of Congress, September 20, 2001, can be heard at http:/ /w.americanrhetoric.com.
e1 "Terror Coverage Boosts News Media's Images;' Pew Research Center for People and the Press, survey report released November 28, 2001. Available at htp: I I people-press.org (accessed July 28, 2oo8).
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1 Butler, Giving an Account of Onesel,t 108. Hereafter cited in the text as Giving.
2 See Zizek, "Neighbors an4 Other Monsters;' 137.
3 Foucault, "Governmentality," 102.
4 Butler, Excitable Speech, 78. Hereafter cited in the text as ES.
5 See Passavant, No Escape.
s I should note here that Zizek does not view this closure as final; rather, through., out his work he emphasizes possibilities for rupture, as in, for example, the radical act that changes the coordinates of a situation, in Lacan's feminine formulae for sexuation that present a logic of the non-all, and in the gaps and ruptures inherent in the material structures in which we :find ourselves. In what follows, I draw from Eric Santner's specific figuring of these gaps as stresses that call to and excite the subject.
7 Zizek, The Ticklish Subject, 369.
s Butler, Precarious Life, 20. Hereafter cited in the text as PL. I am not sure how new these bases are. Judith Shklar, for example, theorizes liberalism by prioritizing a fundamental hatred of cruelty. See her Ordinary Vices.
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