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Ours is a century of fear. Governments and mass media bombard us with words and images: desert radicals, "rogue states,” jihadists, WMDs, existential enemies of freedom. We labor beneath myths that neither address nor describe the present situation, monstrous deceptions produced by a sound bite society. There is no reckoning of actuality, no understanding of the individual lives that inaugurated this echo chamber.
In the summer of 1999, Mohamed Atta defended a master's thesis that critiqued the introduction of Western-style skyscrapers in the Middle East and called for the return of the "Islamic-Oriental city.” Using this as a departure point, Jarett Kobek's novel ATTA offers a fictionalized psychedelic biography of Mohamed Atta that circles around a simple question: what if 9/11 was as much a matter of architectural criticism as religious terrorism? Following the development of a socially awkward boy into one of history's great villains, Kobek demonstrates the need for a new understanding of global terrorism. Joined in this volume by a second work, "The Whitman of Tikrit”—a radical reimagining of Saddam Hussein's last day before capture—ATTA is a brutal, relentless, and ultimately fearless corrective to ten years of propaganda and pandering.
Ours is a century of fear. Governments and mass media bombard us with words and images: desert radicals, "rogue states,” jihadists, WMDs, existential enemies of freedom. We labor beneath myths that neither address nor describe the present situation, monstrous deceptions produced by a sound bite society. There is no reckoning of actuality, no understanding of the individual lives that inaugurated this echo chamber.
In the summer of 1999, Mohamed Atta defended a master's thesis that critiqued the introduction of Western-style skyscrapers in the Middle East and called for the return of the "Islamic-Oriental city.” Using this as a departure point, Jarett Kobek's novel ATTA offers a fictionalized psychedelic biography of Mohamed Atta that circles around a simple question: what if 9/11 was as much a matter of architectural criticism as religious terrorism? Following the development of a socially awkward boy into one of history's great villains, Kobek demonstrates the need for a new understanding of global terrorism. Joined in this volume by a second work, "The Whitman of Tikrit”—a radical reimagining of Saddam Hussein's last day before capture—ATTA is a brutal, relentless, and ultimately fearless corrective to ten years of propaganda and pandering.
| Empfohlen (von): | 18 |
|---|---|
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2011 |
| Genre: | Importe, Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Reihe: | Semiotext(e) / Intervention |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781584351061 |
| ISBN-10: | 1584351063 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Kobek, Jarett |
| Auflage: | New |
| Hersteller: | MIT Press |
| Maße: | 177 x 113 x 17 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Jarett Kobek |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 05.08.2011 |
| Gewicht: | 0,182 kg |
| Empfohlen (von): | 18 |
|---|---|
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2011 |
| Genre: | Importe, Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Reihe: | Semiotext(e) / Intervention |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781584351061 |
| ISBN-10: | 1584351063 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Kobek, Jarett |
| Auflage: | New |
| Hersteller: | MIT Press |
| Maße: | 177 x 113 x 17 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Jarett Kobek |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 05.08.2011 |
| Gewicht: | 0,182 kg |
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