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Presentation by Iain Boal of Retort on "Afflicted Powers"

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Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War

Presented by Iain Boal*, a member of Retort and one of the authors of "Afflicted Powers" which is an account of world politics since September 11, 2001. It aims to confront the perplexing doubleness of the present—its lethal mixture of atavism and new-fangledness. A brute return of the past, calling to mind now the Scramble for Africa, now the Wars of Religion, is accompanied by an equally monstrous political deployment of (and entrapment in) the apparatus of a hyper-modern production of appearances. Retort is a gathering of antagonists to capital and empire, based for two decades in the San Francisco Bay Area. The present book arises from the group's efforts to confront the current political moment and some of the main forms of resistance to it. Involved in the writing were Iain Boal, T. J. Clark, Joseph Matthews, and Michael Watts.

Sunday October 7th, 2007; 10:00 a.m. -- noon

*Boal is presenting on behalf of Retort. We encourage critical engagement with these ideas. The following are reviews of the book and its authors:

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