Afflicted powers
Subtitle: capital and spectacle in a new age of war
By: Retort.
Contributors: Boal, Iain A.; Clark, T. J.; Matthews, Joseph.; Watts, Michael.
Edition: New ed.
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: World politics -- 1989-; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Political aspects.
Notes: "Retort is a gathering of antagonists to capital and empire, based for two decades in the San Francisco Bay Area. Afflicted Powers arises from the group's efforts to confront the current political moment and forms of resistance to it. Involved in the writing were Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews, and Michael Watts."--p. [3] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-215) and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction; value: The state, the spectacle, and September 11; value: Blood for oil?; value: Permanent war; value: The future of an illusion; value: Revolutionary Islam; value: Modernity and terror; value: Afterword.