Slavoj Žižek on the Matrix, #2
Another Žižek essay, "Welcome to the Desert of the Real," from 2001. Also on my reading list. Looks more closely at the images of violence and devastation and their role in the popular, post-9/11 imagination.
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Meadowsweet and Myrrh: Grief, Dissolved.
Powerful meditations on 9-11 from a Pittsburgh-based religious writer.
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Could 9-11 have been prevented?
Author and investigative journalist Lawrence Wright ("The Looming Tower") on the various bureaucratic failures in the US intelligence world that made the 9-11 attacks possible. Depressing.
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September 11 stunted America's political growth
Mark Lilla says that 9-11 sent the U.S. into a kind of nightmarish sleepwalking episode. Its behavior since then is irrational and desperate. Sooner or later, we'll wake up.
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SojoNet: Faith, Politics, and Culture |What we've forgotten about 9/11, by George W. Drance
George Drance, SJ, a New York-based artist, recalls the smell and the atmosphere in the days after 9-11.
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Crooks and Liars » Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Bush: Who has left this hole in the ground? We have not forgotten, Mr. President. You have. May this country forgive you
Scathing remarks from Keith Olbermann on the five-year anniversary of 9-11.
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The 9/11 Report: A graphic adaptation by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón. - Slate Magazine
A disturbing, but oddly compelling idea - the 9-11 report rewritten as a comick book.
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The Times Herald - Hijacked truth?
This is a profile of a local member of 911Truth.org who believes that the Bush administration is involved in an enormous coverup of the facts around 9-11. Interesting to see how local media treats someone who could easily be seen as a wacko.
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