Powell, Colin, 118
power: communicative capitalism as protecting and immunizing, 119–20; evil, secret ty pe of, 117–18; failure to take responsibility for, 181n27; governmentality and dispersion of, 125– 28; governmentality and extension of, 130-31; self-production and excess of, 171–72; of technology fetishism, 41– 42; victims of, vs. claims of, s–6
power-law degree distributions, 29-30
private property ideas, 36–37
privatization: communicative deluge linked to, 23; governments' adoption of, 54-55; realities of, 56–57
psychosis: belief displaced by, 171–72; crisis of symbolic investiture linked to, 162, 164–65; Jacques Lacan on, 151–52, 162, 166–69; need for recognition in, 167–69; normal actions compared with, 166-68; role of media and, 172-75
psychotic discourse: emergence of, 168– 69. See also 9/11 truth movement
Radio B92 (Serbia), 24
Ranciere, Jacques, 13–14, 178n24
Rawls, John, 13, 82
Reagan, Ronald: on evil, 15–16, 95–96, 108–14, 191nn43-45; movie career of, 191n48; neoliberalism of, 52-54; political demonology of, 188ns; realism of, 111−13
reality: of Bush, 64–65, 88, 90; change in status of, 64–65; in communicative capitalism, 56–57, 147–48; imaginary in alliance with, 113-14; media based in, 64–65, 88; presumed in politics, 147; psychotic rejection of, 166–67; of Reagan, 111–13
registration effect, 31
relativism: absolutist conviction combined with, 95–96, 120–21; evil and, 100; as ideological, 97. See also postmodernism
religious discourse: Bush's vacuous resolve and, 116–20; freedom in, 105; neoliberalism supplemented by, 60, 184n29; pluralism of, 98–99; prominence in United States, 97–98; public/private and, 104, 113; Puritan jeremiad in, 101; Reagan's approach to evil and, 109–12, 191n44
religious right: Coulter's view of, 189nı1; disagreements among, 98–99; prominence in United States, 97–98. See also evangelical Christianity
resignification and reappropriation: potential of, 127; sovereignty and, 128-36
resistance: of Bush to exchange of reasons, 85–87; lost when enemies accept one's terms, 9–10; via networked communications media, 24
responses. See êssages
revolution: use of term, 32, 101
Revolution Church (Manitou Spring), 60, 185n32
Reynolds, Morgan, 161
rhizome metaphor, 30
Rice, Condoleezza, 151, 157, 188–89n9
Rich, Frank, 8
right (political): critical account of, 153; democratic rhetoric of, 75; elections read as triumph of, 2–5; ethics of generosity as response to, 123-24; left's views of, 1–2, 5; politicization by 14–16; postmodernism and, 8, 97; Reagan's realism praised by, 112-13; revolution claimed by, 32, 101; on taking human life, 135. See also religious right
rights discourse, 5
Rogers, Richard, 44–45
Rogin, Michael, 108, 188n5, 191n48
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