Fight Club and the World Trade Center: On Metaphor, Scale, and the Spatio-temporal (Dis)location of Violence.
In this essay we examine the metaphorical rendition of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, which took place on 11 September 2001, as attacks on "civilization." Our principal aim is to understand how it has proven to be as affective as it seems to have been thus far. We do so by turning...
| Published in: | Journal for Cultural Research Vol. 7; no. 2; pp. 195 - 219 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Apr2003
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