Against the War on Terror: Surveillance goes Sci-Fi

A G A I N S T T H E W A R O N T E R R O R Against the War on Terror
Click Below New! February Teach-in video On February 25th 2006 AWOT organized a Teach-In against the War on Terror at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. Now Streaming... Interviews Corey Robin talks to AWOT about terror, security and his recent book, Fear: The History of a Political Idea. Read On... Our Blog The war on terror is an attempt to make security the highest goal of American life. Our leaders have reduced politics to questions of mere survival, in which even the smallest risks are viewed as overriding threats to national existence. We at Against the War on Terror aim to challenge this view and the apparent need to eliminate fear itself. The preservation of bare life cannot and should not guide our political activity and dominate our public culture. We reject the very premise of the war on terror....Read On Contact the Editors AWOT on the Radio Aziz and Alex appeared on WBAI's Behind the Headlines with host Doug Henwood to discuss Against the War on Terror. Listen in Hi-Fi or Lo-Fi.	Taking a Break for 2007 In preparation for the New Year AWOT will be posting less often. We are taking time to develop new ideas and new Political events for the spring. Regular commentary will resume shortly. Monday, February 13, 2006 Surveillance goes Sci-Fi Yesterday we posted on the general acceptance of surveillance as part of our daily lives. See this Financial Times story, which one of our readers kindly sent us, about a company implanting 'RFID' chips, or small radio-transmitters, in two of their employees. posted by Editors at 2/13/2006 12:56:00 PM 0 Comments: Post a Comment << Home	Interviews Corey Robin Previous Posts Who's In Guantanamo, Anyway? How We Learned to Love Surveillance Freedom of Speech on the Defensive Are We Terrorists? Of Cartoons and Civilizations Chess and Habeas Corpus Awkward Questions 3: Was Biden Almost Right? Awkward Questions 2: Is Grassley Right? Awkward Questions 1: Is Gonzalez Right? The Teach-In Is Now Open Featured Commentary The Optical Illusion of George W Bush: Presidency Without a Purpose Read More in Last Month's Posts Archives August 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006