The Colonial Present: Afghanistan. Palestine. Iraq

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Part 1: The Colonial Present:.

1.1 Foucault’s Laughter.

1.2 The Present Tense.

Part 2: Architectures of Enmity:.

2.1 Imaginative Geographies.

2.2 “Why do they hate us?”.

2.3 September 11.

Part 3: The Land Where Red Tulips Grew:.

3.1 Great Games.

3.2 Uncivil Wars and Transnational Terrorism.

3.3 The Sorcerer’s Apprentices.

Part 4 Civilization and Barbarism:.

4.1 The Visible and the Invisible.

4.2 Territorialization, Targets, and Technoculture.

4.3 Deadly Messengers.

4.4 Spaces of the Exception.

4.5 Deconstructions.

Part 5 Barbed Boundaries:.

5.1 America’s Israel.

5.2 Diaspora, Dispossession, and Disaster.

5.3 Occupation, Coercion, and Colonization.

5.4 Camp David and Goliath.

Part 6: Defiled Cities:.

6.1 Ground Zeros.

6.2 Besieging Cartographies.

6.3 Identities and Oppositions.

Part 7: The Tyranny of Strangers:.

7.1 “Not as conquerors or enemies…”.

7.2 Coups and Conflicts.

7.3 Desert Storms and Urban Nightmares.

Part 8: Boundless War:.

8.1 Black September.

8.2 Killing Grounds.

8.3 The Cutting-room War.

Part 9: Gravity’s Rainbows:.

9.1 Connective Dissonance.

9.2 The Colonial Present and Cultures of Travel.

9.3 Pandora’s Spaces.

Guide to Further Reading.

Index