Black Friday, 69-70
Blair, Tony, 7
bloggers and blogging: on rnicrochunking and rebundling, 178m6; political campaigns and, 40-41; politics displaced onto, 39-40. See also Internet·<sub>J</sub> networked communications media
Bosnia: excesses (evil) in, 112
Boyd, Andrew, 46
Brand, Stewart, 36
Brentwood Baptist Church (Houston), 6o
Bretton Woods Agreement ( 1944), 53
Brooks, David, 153
Brown, Wendy, 13, 16-171 182n1
Bruni, Frank, 115-16
Buchstein, Hubertus, 77
Bush, George W.: analysis and condemnation of, 140-41; on conspiracy theories, 153-54; democratic rhetoric of, 75, So-8;2., Ss; election of, 1-3; on enemy combatants, 130-31; label for critics of, 193n12; law in relation to, 14, 85, 133 -34, 187m7; as master and decider, 84-85, 93, 134, 187120; militarism and unilateralism o£ 19-20; mission accomplished speech of, n8- 19i 9 1 11 appropriated by, 169-70, · 174-75; No Child Left Behind pro"' gram of, 7, 57; oil and energy policy under, 49i opposition to, 47, 174\_75; persistence in justifying Iraq War, 10, 25, 81-83; Plame's outing under, 15; power of, 171; ftresidential influences on, 111, 190n32; public suspicions about, 145-46; reality of, 64-65, 88, 90; religiosity of, 98-99, 114, n6; as resistant to exchange of reasons, 85- 87; on taking human life, 135; on torture, 100, 134; vagueness and vacuous resolve of, 114-20; verbal slip-ups of, 192nss. See also "axis of evil"
Bush v. Gore (2ooo), 2-3
Butler, Judith: on address and condemnation, 136-42; on ethics, 123-24; on governmentality, 124-25, 135-36; on the human, 135; on resignifcation, 128-30; on sovereignty and speech regulation, 125-28; on sovereignty's resurgence, 130-35; on unknowingness, 142-43
capitalism: amplification of, 31-32, 93i evil redirected away from, 15\_16, 95\_ 96, 108-14, 191nn43 -45; excesses of, as evil, 101-2; flexibilty of, 37; justification of, 182n33; left's acceptance of, 15-16, 34-35, 77; postmodemism in corporate, 8-9; radicalism o£ 9 ' ' <sub>1</sub> surplus value and enjoyment linked in, 132-33. See also communicative capitalism; global neoliberal capitalism
Carter, Jimmy, 54, 107-8, 190- 9In39 celebrity: subjectivization of, 177ns certainty and credibility: approach to, 145-48; in asserting facts of 9 /11, 149-50, 155-58; of Bush vs. 9 / 11 truth movement, 169-71; circulation of, 148-49; collapse \_of authority in, So; mutability of, 66-67, 73i outsidership and absence of conflict of interest in, 154-55; search for, 64; skepticism combined with, 15o-51, 154\_57, 162;. 69; suppression of questions about, 120-21; of university professors, 158- 62. See also conspiracy theory
Cheney, Dick: as evil, more powerful leader, 117-18; on Fox News} 163; "inevitable attack" meme of, 172; 9;11 testimony of, 170; power of, 171; on taking human life, 135
Chicago School, 52, 183n7, 183n9
Chile: neoliberalism in1 1s3n9
Chronicle of Higher Education (periodical), 158-59
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