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The rhetorical invention of America's national security state /
The Rhetorical Invention of America's National Security State uses a broad range of materials, including technical, journalistic, entertainment, academic, and legal sources to explore the role of rhetoric in the expansion and maintenance of America's national security state. It helps audie...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
2015.
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| Colección: | Lexington studies in contemporary rhetoric.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The rhetorical origins of America's national security state
- Military "science" and the legitimation of preventive war, mass surveillance, and kill/capture counterterrorism
- The department of defense, the CIA, and the legitimation of America's "enhanced interrogation techniques"
- Remembering the rise of America's special forces and the rhetorical force behind the Navy Seal's raid on Bin Laden's Abbottabad
- Cyber war, threat inflation, and the securitization of everyday life
- The "stress" of remotely pilot aircraft crews and the biopolitical normalization of America's "precise" drone attacks overseas
- Edward Snowden, agent provocateur, and overreactions of the NSA
- Anticipating the future rhetorical trajectories of America's national security state.