Information and Infrastructure Technology Act (1993), 36
Inhofe, James, 153
institutions. See civil institutions; global zero institution; labor unions
International Monetary Fund, 54
Internet: Bush's removal of documents from, 149; characteristic uses of, 43- 44; fantasy of abundance and, 25-26; inequalities of structure in, 28-30; interpassivity on, 31, 37-38; linkg practices on, 44-45; mass mobilizing via, 4 7-48; neoliberal perspective on, 56; 9 / 11 truth videos on, 155-58; political empowerment via, 36-42; as public's preferred news source, 145- 46; second opinions via, 64; value of abundance vs. scarcity and, 179- 8onn; as zero institution, 42-45. See also bloggers and blogging; contributions; networked communications media
interpassivity concept, 31, 37-38
Iran: in Bush's axis of evil, 951 97, 118-19, 121, 188-89n9
Iraq: in Bush's axis of evil, 95, 97, 118"-191 121, 188-89n9
Iraq War: Abu Ghraib prison and, 72, 134; analysis of, 19-20, 140; Bush's mission accomplished speech on, 118-19; Bush's persistence in justifying, 10, 25, 81-83; condemnation of, 141; democratic theory on run-up to, 81-92; fake news about, 8; opposition to, 46, 81- 86, 93; public deception in, 15
Israel: criticism against, 129
Jackson, Henry M., 191043
Jeferson, Thomas, 106-7
Johnson, Lyndon B., 106-7
Jones, Steven E., 158- 61
J orke, Dirk, 77
Journal of 9 I 11 Studies, 158
justice: democracy's inability to represent, 76; personal freedom vs. social, 33-34; preemptive, 71-72. See also criminal justice system
Kane, Tim, 69
Kant, Immanuel, 135
Kennedy, John F., 105-6, 145, 158
Keynesianism: criminal justice in, 71- 72; demise of, 54-55; necessities for consumption in, 68; regulatory emphasis in, 52-53; symbolic identities in, 66- 67, 73· See also welfare state
King, Samanth� 6
I<insell� Sophie, 7o
knowledge: belief vs., 188n3; Reagan's categorization of evil as, 108-14; as seemingly neutral, 88-89. See also certainty and credibility; facts; unknowingness and unknowabilit}r
Korean conflict, 104
Krugman, Paul, 19�ru2
Kurtz, Stanle}7i 188n8
labor unions: decline of, 6s, 185n45; left's retreat from, 34; neoliberals' breaking of, 54
Lacan, Jacques (and Lacanian psychoanalysis) : on ambiguity oflanguage, 169; applying theories of, 77; four discourses of, 79-80; on imaginary and Real alance, 113; on letter and destination, 46; on objet petit a, 99; on operation of the symbolic, 63-66, 127, 185n4o; on the other (Internet), 44; on overidentification, 61-62; on position of truth, 88; on psychosis, 151-52, 162, 166-69; on sex:uation, 192n6; on subject-supposed-to-know vs. subject-supposed-to-believe, 188n3. See also enjoyment (jouissance) ; hysteric discourse; master discourse; pervert discourse; university discourse
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