INDEX
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 7--8
U.S. Department of State, 8, 154
USS Abraham Lincoln, 118-19
U.S. Supreme Court, 131
Vanity Fair (magazine), 156
victims: language o£ 4-10
victim-security matrix, 6-7
Vietnam War, 107
voter turnout, 1, 17, 179n34
Wall Street (film), 61
Wark1 McKenzie, 182n4 7
war on teror: axis-of-evil speech in context o£ u8-19; Bush's ontology of evil in, 119-20; Bush's vacuous resolve in, 116 -17; opposition to, 174- 75; resignifications in1 128-30
·washington Consensus, 54, 57
wealth concentration1 23-25, 76. See also inequalities; neoliberalism
weapons of mass destruction ( WMD s), 19-20, 188-89n9
Web 2.0, 4· See also networked communications media
welfare state: competition as rationale against, 57; feminism's failure to fight for, 18o-81n23; left's role in collapse o£ 7, 33-351 101, 181n24; neoliberal dismantling o£ 71 55· See also Keynesianism
wholeness: fantasy o£ 381 4·2-45
Wilams1 Armstrong, 7
Wilson, Joseph, 15
Wilson, Kenneth1 29
Wood, JudYi 161
workers and the poor: left's retreat from1 7, 33- 35. See also inequalities; labor unions
World Bank1 54
World Trade Center, 157. See also 9 I 11
truth movement; September n, 2001
World Wide Web1 43. See also Internet; networked communications media
YouTube, 4, 17, 31, 148
Zelikow, Philip1 151
zero institution, 42-45
Zinn, Howard, 159
<sup>Z</sup>izek1 Slavoj: on capitalism, 8, 186n6s; on democracy, 76-77; on enjoyment1 so} 132-33J 182n3; on fantasy in ideol-Og}lj 55-58; on four discourses, 79- 8o; on Hegel1 861 188n2; on ideological identifcation, 61--62; on the inhuman, 135; on interpassivit}lj 31; on law, 134; on loss as object, 150; on modes of dreaming, 10; on post-politics1 13- 16; on surplus value, 132-33; on symbolic eficiency decline, 63-67, 127- 28, 162-64, 192n6; on two figures of the master, 117-18; on university discourse, 88; on victory in defeat, 7; on zero institution, 42-43
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