state: collusion in neoliberalism, 49-50; fundamental role of, 35; left's retreat from, 33, 35-36; nation as zero institution, 43; regulatory function of, 52, 58-59. See also security
Stone, Oliver, 61
Storms, Sam, 6o
subjects and subjectivization: address and self�accounts of, 136-42; celeb� rity and conspiracy modes of, 177n8; as enjoined to enjoy, 66-67, 731 128, 132-34; inconsistencies and respon� sibilities of, 142-43; passivity of, 169- 70; psychotic vs. normal, 166-68; registration efect and, 31; speech acts and, 126-27; symbolic investiture of, 162, 164-65
Sudan: excesses (evil) in, 112
Sumers, Lawrence, 129
Sunstein, Cass R, 181-82n31
Suskind, Ron, 64-65
symbolic eficiency, decline of: anxieties and domination in, 132-33; certainty, skepticism, and, 162-64; concept of, 63-67, 127-28; cdsis of investiture in context of, 1621 164-65; evil vs. good and, 113-14; paranoid psychosis in context of, 162, 166-69; unkowi:D.gness and, i42-43
technology fetishism: failures ofleft and, 33-38; MoveOn as exemplar of, 46-47; operational modes of, 38-42; political energies located in, 31- 33· See also media;' networked communications media
Telecommunications Act (1996), 36
television: advertising on, 179-8onu; ratings system of, 18om3
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, 3s
Thatcher, Margaret: anti-welfare state policy under, 7, ss; competition
precept of, 57; neoliberalism of, 52- 54
third-way thesis, n, 13
Thompson, Dennis: Bush's war justifed b}lj 93; on deliberative democracy, 81- 83, 91-92; on questioning and argument, 84-85; in university discourse context, 87-90, 151
Time (magazine), 158
torture, 72, wo, .134
totalitarianism: as evil, no-141 191nn43- 45
Transportation Security Administration, 7-8
Treanor, Paul, 183n7
Trinity Broadcasting Company, 184n3o
Truman, Harry s., 102-S, 114
Turkey: post-World War II assistance for, 103
Turner, Fred, 181n29
United Nations, 112, 114
United States: economi� crisis in 1970s, 53-54; legacy of evil in, 108-1o; as sovereign over international norms, 130
universality and universalization: concept of, 78, 186m; democracy as obstacle to, 77; as terrain of political claims, 22
university discourse: certainty and skepticism combined in, 151; concept of, 8o; deliberative democracy in terms of, 87-92; democracy as radical ideal in, Bo-83; everyday compared with, 77i 9 I 11 movement linked to, 151-52, 158-62, 168-69; on status ofhumanities, 136
unknowingness and unkowability: attunement to, 142-43; in human relations, 136-38
USA Patriot Act (2o01), 131
U.S. Congress, 25, 69, 83
U.S. Constitution, 126
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