Introduction: spectator of calamities -- Five political crises: the new semiotic environment -- Turning history into happening: the first Iraq war -- The Persians -- From the ruins of 9/11: grief and terror -- Facing terror -- War documents -- Bodies count: in/visible scandal at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib -- Afghanistan and "the spectacle of our suffering".
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