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2012.
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On June 7, 2006, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the United States' 'public enemy number two', was killed by two 500lb bombs, dropped by US forces on the safe house in which he and others were hiding. This paper is about the making and unmaking of Al Zarqawi as a monster, and his curious afterlife as a governmental technology. As we pass the fifth anniversary of his death, this detailed study of Al Zarqawi offers an invaluable general lesson for the political analysis of terror. Zarqawi's monstration - his making and unmaking as a monster - tells us about the powers of naming and linking that characterize executive power in the age of globalized media systems, and the productive relation between diurnal practices of security work and the nocturnal phantasms of cultural memory carried by media which, this paper argues, drive and sustain wars in the twenty-first century.
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2013.
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I did but see her passing by, and yet I love her till I die
- Prime Minister Robert Menzies, quoting Thomas Ford, on the occasion of Queen Elizabeth's visit to Canberra, 1963
Vires acquirit eundo (she gathers strength as she goes)
- motto of the City of Melbourne
Occupy Melbourne (OM) took place between 15 and 21 October 2011 at City Square, Melbourne,1 in solidarity with the series of Occupy protests that took place in the US and Britain around the same time, and that are notionally ongoing on an indefinite basis.
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102949
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2011.
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The interdiction and detention of irregular arrivals has become one of the key means by which wealthy states enforce and promote secure mobility. This article presents a detailed genealogy of the problems and solutions that enabled Australia's Christmas Island to become an integral site for the reproduction of Australian society through practices of border protection. A close examination of Christmas Island reveals broader, deeper currents that follow the shifting shapes of state internationally, and the dreams and ruins such transformations produce in their wake.
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