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A Thousand Paper Cuts: Us Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War

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Availability:In StockContributor:Anjali NathSeries:Sign, Storage, TransmissionPublish date:11/11/2025Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478029410ISBN-10:1478029412UPC:9781478029410Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Privacy & Surveillance, Activism & Social JusticeBook Topic:AmericanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.0406Product ID:SC7XJAAMPW
In A Thousand Paper Cuts, Anjali Nath considers the paper worlds made and destroyed by US imperialism. From the slogans of anti-Communist Cold Warriors against a spectral "Paper Curtain" to the scuttled efforts of activists who sought to document America's surveillance regime amidst the US war on Vietnam, Nath offers a pre-history of the redacted visions of the Homeland Security age. Nath shows how declassified documents tell the story of American counterinsurgency at home and abroad, revealing the imperial grammar beneath the abundant redactions of contemporary visual culture. Tracing the liberal political rhetoric that inspired the Freedom of Information Act in the 1960s, through to the Bush-era's exuberant secrecy to the contemporary artists who subversively repurpose redacted documents in collage and critique, Nath maps the formation of the security state, its bureaucratic regimes of surveillance, and the racial logic of transparency.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478029410ISBN-10:1478029412UPC:9781478029410Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Privacy & Surveillance, Activism & Social JusticeBook Topic:AmericanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.0406Product ID:SC7XJAAMPW
Anjali Nath is Assistant Professor in the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga.
Publisher: Duke University Press

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