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A Thousand Paper Cuts: Us Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War

A Thousand Paper Cuts: Us Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War

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Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission

General Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1478029412
ISBN13: 9781478029410
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Nov 11 2025
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In A Thousand Paper Cuts, Anjali Nath considers the paper worlds made and destroyed by US imperialism. From the slogans of anti-Communist Cold Warriors against a spectral Paper Curtain to the scuttled efforts of activists who sought to document America's surveillance regime amidst the US war on Vietnam, Nath offers a pre-history of the redacted visions of the Homeland Security age. Nath shows how declassified documents tell the story of American counterinsurgency at home and abroad, revealing the imperial grammar beneath the abundant redactions of contemporary visual culture. Tracing the liberal political rhetoric that inspired the Freedom of Information Act in the 1960s, through to the Bush-era's exuberant secrecy to the contemporary artists who subversively repurpose redacted documents in collage and critique, Nath maps the formation of the security state, its bureaucratic regimes of surveillance, and the racial logic of transparency.

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