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Introduction: Fabricated connections, deeply felt -- Envisioning civilian childhood -- Affective pedagogies for military children -- Recognizing military wives -- Economies of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury -- Liberal imaginaries of Guantánamo -- Feeling for dogs in the War on Terror -- Conclusion: a radical and unsentimental attention

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. The Shadow Rules of Engagement; One. Illuminating; Two. Dimensional; Three. Diagnostic; Four. Temporal; Five. Juridical; Conclusion. Other Destinations; Notes; Index; About the Author; Back Cover

Focusing on the paradoxes revealed in the multibillion dollar mistake of the Universal Camouflage Pattern (UCP) and the expansive ambit of a leaked National Security Agency briefing on its approach to "identity intelligence," this article analyzes security glitches arising from the state's application of mechanized logics to security and visibility. Presuming that a digital-looking pattern would be more deceptive than designs inspired by natural forms, in 2004, the US Army adopted a pixelated "digital" camouflage pattern, a print that rendered soldiers more, rather than less, visible in the field; it acknowledged this error in 2012. Two years later, "Identity Intelligence: Image Is Everything" visualized the episteme of National Security Agency surveillance with an illustration detailing hundreds of different types of data—biometric, biographic, and contextual—that the agency believes it could exploit to identify and monitor "targets of interest." These glitches originate in technofetishistic convictions about the nature of digital images and information, limited ways of imagining bodies and lives, and reductive understandings of complex relationships between power and perception. Together, they expose the paradoxes that arise as the state tries to extend its power over the body and the contingency of that power on the smallest of things.

In this article, I consider the practice of teaching with or about the Abu Ghraib images, and argue that such pedagogy is inherently founded on ethical and visual aporiae: dilemmas that are irresolvable but nonetheless demand solutions. These aporiae originate in the inseparability of the torture from its being photographed, as the images are documentary evidence of that violence, but also instruments of it. Because the idea of "transparency" underestimates the complexities of the visual questions posed by Abu Ghraib and misleadingly implies that they can be satisfactorily and permanently answered, I suggest that the first step for any ethical teaching on Abu Ghraib is to query transparency itself and dispense with its concomitant pedagogical emphasis on cultivating "visual literacy" in our students and empowering them to critically decode images. Because our students are already so much more powerful than the subjects of the Abu Ghraib photos, I argue instead for an emphasis on self-reflexivity, visual epistemologies, and the politics of spectatorship. This shift has the potential to illuminate our enmeshment in state visualities and our vexed relationships to the tortured prisoners themselves, rather than forcibly rendering them visible and transparent once again, this time in the name of education.

This article is a consideration of the nexus of photography, masculinity, and American nationalism in the traumatic post-9/11 context of the war in Iraq. It begins by outlining a theoretical framework for the interpretation of contemporary images of men at war. This background informs the rest of the argument, which is structured around an analysis of a particular collection of images from a commemorative photo history of the ongoing conflict. The photos are freighted with particular narratives about the shape and meaning of militarized and imaged masculinity in the global war on terrorism, particularly as it intersects with race, ethnicity, and sexuality. Ultimately, the article contends that the relationships between visuality, nationalism, and masculinity are intimate, and that attention to this imbrication is essential to an understanding of the discourses and politics of the war.

Drone warfare is now a routine, if not predominant, aspect of military engagement. Although this method of delivering violence at a distance has been a part of military arsenals for two decades, scholarly debate on remote warfare writ large has remained stuck in tired debates about practicality, efficacy, and ethics. Remote Warfare broadens the conversation, interrogating the cultural and political dimensions of distant warfare and examining how various stakeholders have responded to the reality of state-sponsored remote violence. The essays here represent a panoply of viewpoints, revealing overlooked histories of remoteness, novel methodologies, and new intellectual challenges. From the story arc of Homeland to redefining the idea of a "warrior," these thirteen pieces consider the new nature of surveillance, similarities between killing with drones and gaming, literature written by veterans, and much more. Timely and provocative, Remote Warfare makes significant and lasting contributions to our understanding of drones and the cultural forces that shape and sustain them.

From the publisher: This book is a collection of new and controversial views on pain, its accessibility to understanding and its influence on knowledge. Despite contrary assumptions, the volume argues for the possibility to externalise and communicate pain through language, narrative and social contextualisation. Expressions and responses to pain are historicized and studied within several humanitarian disciplines

Frontmatter -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: "The War of My Generation" / Kieran, David -- Part I. EXPERIENCES AND ATTITUDES OF THE 9/11 GENERATIONS -- 1. Starship Troopers, School Shootings, and September 11: Changing Generational Consciousnesses and Twenty-First- Century Youth / Swyers, Holly -- 2. Summer, Soldiers, Flags, and Memorials: How US Children Learn Nation-Linked Militarism from Holidays / Clark, Cindy Dell -- 3. Fighting with Rights and Forging Alliances: Youth Politics in the War on Terror / Maira, Sunaina -- Part II. POST-9/11 MILITARISM IN OLD AND NEW MEDIA -- 4. How to Tell a True War Story . . . for Children: Children's Literature Addresses Deployment / Browder, Laura -- 5. "What Young Men and Women Do When Their Country Is Attacked": Interventionist Discourse and the Rewriting of Violence in Adolescent Literature of the Iraq War / Kieran, David -- 6. Calls of Duty: The World War II Combat Video Game and the Construction of the "Next Great Generation" / Saucier, Jeremy K. -- 7. Software and Soldier Life Cycles of Recruitment, Training, and Rehabilitation in the Post-9/11 Era / Allen, Robertson -- Part III. COMING OF AGE STORIES AND THE REPRESENTATION OF MILLENNIAL CITIZENSHIP DURING THE WAR ON TERROR -- 8. Coming of Age in 9/11 Fiction: Bildungsroman and Loss of Innocence / Lampert, Jo -- 9. "Army Strong": Mexican American Youth and Military Recruitment in All She Can / Garza, Irene -- Part IV. POLITICS AND PEDAGOGY -- 10. In This War But Not of It: Teaching, Memory, and the Futures of Children and War / Cooper, Benjamin -- 11. "Coffins after Coffins": Screening Wartime Atrocity in the Classroom / Adelman, Rebecca A. -- Afterword: Scholarship on Millennial and Post-Millennial Culture during the War on Terror: A Bibliographic Essay / Kieran, David -- List of Contributors -- Index