fear and terror (post-9lu), 96-99; having one's terms accepted by enemies in, 9-10; language of victimization in rights discourse, 5; ofering reasons in, 89-92; participation in, 78-8o, 187n8; responsive listening in, 107, 190n37; types of, 79-80. See also evil; hysteric discourse; master discourse; pervert discourse; psychotic discourse; religious discourse; university discourse
displacement concept, 39-41
Douglas, Michael, 61
Dumenil, Gerard, 53
Dyer-Witheford, Nick, 36- 37
Dynamic Duo, The (radio program), 161
economic neoliberalization: consumer I criminal doublet as figure in, 63, 67- 72; governmentality linked to, 131-32; left's acceptance of, 15-16, 33-35, 77i responsibility for, 3 -4. See also free trade; global neoliberal capitalism economy: boom an& bust, as evil, 103; commodities' function in, 27-28; depoliticization of, 15-16; of dot-com years, 25-26; Foucault on, 183n7; of moral disagreement, 89; neoliberal and Keynesian compared, 51-55; structural crisis in 1970s, 53-54· See · also capitalism; economic neoliberalization;. free trade; global neoliberal capitalism
Edge-generation (blog), 178n16
8ol 20 rule, 29-30
Eisenhower, Dwight D.: evil invoked by, 98, 104-51 113-14; as influence on Bush, 190n32; military-industrialcomplex speech of, 190n30 elections ( 2000-2008) : popular vote ignored in, 1-3; as truth of conservative hegemony. 2-5; victory in defeat in, 4 -10; voter turnout in, 17
El Salvador: U.S. deaths in, 1o8, 114 end of ideology thesis, 11 Enjoying God Ministries, 6o, 185n32 enjoyment (jouissance) : anxiety juxtaposed to, 59, 150, 184128; consumer I criminal doublet as figure of, 63, 67-72j definition of, so; drive to connect as producing, 150-51; freetrade promises of, 51, s8; of God, 6o; ideological role of, 182n3; lack of, 58- 62; subjects enjoined to, 66-67, 73, 128, 132-34; in symbolic space, 64-65 ethics: address and condemnation in, 136-42; the human question in, 135; left's embrace of, 123 -24, 174-75; resignifications and, 128-36; return of sovereignty and, 125-28; unknowingness as conditioning, 142-43
evangelical Christianity: belief vs. knowledge of, 188n3; disagreements in, 98-99; global media of, 184n3o; language of victimization in, 6; neeliberalism supplemented b)lj 6o, 184n29; prominence of, 7-8; rhetoric of evil and, 97-98. See also religious discourse
evil: absolutist conviction of, 120-21; contextualizing uses of, 95- 96, 11.3-14; displaced away from capitalism, 15-16, 95-96, 108-14, 19mn43-45; in dogmatic vs. signifyg context, 101; hatred (term) vs., 98, 188m; many appearances of, 96-101, 108-10, 114; modem philosophy on, 189ru7; in past presidential speeches, 101-8; postmodernism linked to, 188n8; recognition of, 189m9; specifcity of, 97; use of term, 188n5. See also "axis of evil" experts, rule of, 8o. See also university discourse
Faceboo� 4, 17, 31 facts: authority of, 88-89; certainty in facts (continued) asserting and linkg, 149-50, 155-62; skepticism about, 146-47; stigmatization of ignoring, 152-54; in university discourse, 151
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