See John Stanton, “US Army Human Terrain System in disarray,” Online Journal, August 15, 2008, →; “American Anthropological Association Executive Board Statement on the Human Terrain System Project,” October 31, 2007, →; Elizabeth Redden, “‘American Counterinsurgency’,” Inside Higher Ed, January 29, 2009, →.
Hal Foster, “The Artist as Ethnographer,” in The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996), 180.
Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on the Societies of Control,” October 59 (Winter 1992), 3–7.
Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern,trans. Catherine Porter (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), 46.
Walter Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” in Illuminations: Essay and Reflections, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. H. Zohn (New York: Schocken Books, 1969)
Rosalind Krauss, The Optical Unconscious (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1993)
Rachel Moore, Savage Theory: Cinema as Modern Magic, p. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999), 14–16.
Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998).
Michael Taussig, Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
Taussig, 4.
Taussig, 5.
See James Clifford, The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988).
Jacques Rancière, Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy, trans. Julie Rose (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), 25.
Taussig, 53, 54.
Taussig, 10.
Johannes Fabian, Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).
Fabian, 4.
Fabian, 4.
In a following text, I will attempt to trace some conjunctions between the economy of the frontier and the logic of the imaginary.