Comments on: 09-11-1984, The Calculus of Fear: When Trivial Terrors Become the “Real Threats” http://zeroanthropology.net/2008/04/18/09-11-1984-the-calculus-of-fear-when-trivial-terrors-become-the-real-threats/ Turning and turning in the widening gyre | The falcon cannot hear the falconer | Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold | Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world | The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere | The ceremony of innocence is drowned | The best lack all conviction, while the worst | Are full of passionate intensity. -- W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:31:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Political Economy of the Bullet in Afghanistan « OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY http://zeroanthropology.net/2008/04/18/09-11-1984-the-calculus-of-fear-when-trivial-terrors-become-the-real-threats/#comment-6567 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:51:38 +0000 http://openanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=522#comment-6567 [...] Finally, you might also want to look at an older post on this site, very much related in some ways: 09-11-1984, The Calculus of Fear: When Trivial Terrors Become the “Real Threats.” [...]

]]> By: The Two Terrors of 2008: End of Year Post « OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY http://zeroanthropology.net/2008/04/18/09-11-1984-the-calculus-of-fear-when-trivial-terrors-become-the-real-threats/#comment-3061 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:47:34 +0000 http://openanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=522#comment-3061 [...] “Islamic fundamentalists.” Let’s say goodbye to that old, tiresome, decrepit calculus of fear. As this shift occurs, I promise to place this blog at its [...]

]]> By: Minerva and the Terrorism Industry: “The rule of experts as a means to covert imperial rule” « OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY http://zeroanthropology.net/2008/04/18/09-11-1984-the-calculus-of-fear-when-trivial-terrors-become-the-real-threats/#comment-2443 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:29:03 +0000 http://openanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=522#comment-2443 [...] …each and every one mentioned above [HIV/AIDS undermining social fabrics, rising unrest over increased food and fuel prices, the potential strife over limited resources arising from climate change] is, in my judgment, far more serious than terrorism. It is essentially an American solipsism that is driving this definition of threats. In this, then, Minerva is a missed opportunity on a massive scale – investing heavily in the irrelevant or minor, ignoring the monumental and urgent. [see a related post on this angle of criticism here] [...]

]]> By: American Anthropology & the Pentagon: Let’s Professionalize “Terrorism” Research « OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY http://zeroanthropology.net/2008/04/18/09-11-1984-the-calculus-of-fear-when-trivial-terrors-become-the-real-threats/#comment-630 Wed, 28 May 2008 16:41:14 +0000 http://openanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=522#comment-630 [...] in the Pentagon, can live up to professional standards of peer review. Absent is any questioning of why there ought to be any “terrorism” research whatsoever — a letter from AAA President Setha Low to the U.S. Office of Budget and Management states [...]

]]> By: Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency: Paper Abstracts « OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY http://zeroanthropology.net/2008/04/18/09-11-1984-the-calculus-of-fear-when-trivial-terrors-become-the-real-threats/#comment-503 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:31:39 +0000 http://openanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=522#comment-503 [...] MANIFESTO ← 09-11-1984, The Calculus of Fear: When Trivial Terrors Become the “Real Threats” [...]

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