Afflicted powers
Subtitle: capital and spectacle in a new age of war
By: Retort ; Iain Boal ... [et al.]
Contributors: Boal, Iain A.
Edition: New ed.
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781844670314
Subjects: World politics -- 1989-; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Political aspects.
Notes: Retort is a gathering of some thirty or forty antagonists of the present order of things, based for the past two decades in the San Francisco Bay. Four of the group Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews, and Michael Watts did the main work of writing Afflicted Powers. Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The state, the spectacle, and September 11; title: Blood for oil?; title: Permanent war; title: The future of an illusion; title: Revolutionary Islam; title: Modernity and terror.