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Terror-Dot-Gov

Terror-Dot-Gov

Jaffe, Harold

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ISBN10: 1933293098
ISBN13: 9781933293097
Publisher: Raw Dog Screaming Press
Published: Jun 14 2005
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
As in Harold Jaffe's two previous docufiction collections, False Positive and 15 Serial Killers, the author of Terror-Dot-Gov selects then treats his texts such that the reader is incapable of distinguishing between fact and fiction. That ambiguity permits Jaffe to cunningly tease out the contradictions and subtexts of official news or information and torque it into what it so often is fundamentally: jingoism, xenophobia and propaganda. Jaffe's subject in Terror-Dot-Gov is not the everywhere-represented illicit terrorism so much as licit, institutionalized terrorism, and he assaults his subject from multiple angles: razor-sharp satire, precisely cadenced rhetoric, faux-reportage, and unsituated dialogues (Jaffe's term, referring to his trademark talking heads with perfect pitch). The result is virtuosic and paradoxical: a prodigious display of firepower-in the cause of peace.

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