The Underside of Politics: Global Fictions in the Fog of the Cold War

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Acker, Kathy, 117 Adams, Henry, 16 aesthetics: and absurd 8; and “aesthetic fallacy” 30; and comedy 63; of communism 76, 97, 112; excess 118; as field 24, 41, 144; and modernism 50, 116, 166; and naturalism 149 Agamben, Giorgio, 6, 9, 11, 26, 40, 41, 55–57, 62, 168, 203, 204, 214, 216 allegory: and allotria 227n64; in Cold War American culture 14, 16; de Man’s concept 213n1; existential 144; and indeterminacy 119; of Nazism 146, 150; and police state 165; in postmodernism 127, 154, 234n42; and psychoanalysis 88; of Romanian communism 138. See also metaphysics archive, 9, 158, 162, 182, 199, 203; Derrida’s analysis of 172; imagined 63, 171–74; of the Soviet regime 161, 166, 171, 238n21 Arendt, Hannah, 4, 11, 15, 16, 21, 23, 31, 38, 40, 41, 58–60, 108, 110, 135, 160, 215n8, 218n56, 223n123, 223n129, 238n19 atomic bomb, 14, 15, 17, 18, 37, 101, 132; and nuclear security state 37; and nuclear war 18, 25, 145; and the Rosenbergs 117, 154 Auerbach, Eric, 4, 185, 214n18 Auster, Paul, 42 authority: Arendt’s definition of 60; crisis of 150; and invisible master 52–56, 61, 194; paternalistic 42, 97, 103; and the state 23, 24, 122, 180 Badiou, Alain, 107, 213, 232n64 balance of power: as geopolitical concept 208–10; and terror 246n7; in US constitutional democracy 37 Balibar, Etienne, 30 bare life, 26, 62, 205; and Kennedy assassination footage 206 Bellah, Robert, 122, 233n22 Bellow, Saul, 99 Benjamin, Walter, 41, 51, 57, 223n129, 225n19 biopolitics, 6, 40, 71, 155, 168, 219n73; Esposito’s conception of 214n19; Foucault’s conception of 191; and Project MkUltra 35 Blanchot, Maurice, 33, 35, 40, 221n99 Blumenberg, Hans, 139, 146, 202, 203, 219, 235, 236, 246n132 body politic, 3, 17, 32, 58, 65, 219n71; and administration 61, 62; and embodiment 14, 20, 21, 29, 73, 117, 131, 209; and the human body 65, 67, 70, 92, 94, 137; and social body 139, 145, 242n88; in totalitarianism 4, 5, 81, 89, 157 Botero, 202 Brenkman, John, 207, 222n118 Broch, Herman, 76, 226n6 Index 250 / index discourse: of the (global) Cold War 6, 17–22, 34, 45, 47, 113, 125, 136, 158, 167, 190, 200, 207–10; Laclau and Mouffe’s theory 18, 214n24; and literary narrative 9, 28, 31, 35, 38, 39, 182, 183, 189; of national security 37 Dubček, Alexander, 92 Eagleton, Terry, 143 emergency: and Cold War 37, 44, 119, 124, 210, 211; global 7, 26, 125; powers 36, 37, 56, 134, 204, 245n128, 246n137; states or situations of 58, 63, 124, 131, 137, 138, 152, 212 encyclopedic narrative, 35, 37, 126, 154, 160, 164–68, 172, 209 L’envers de l’histoire contemporaine (Balzac), 52 Esposito, Roberto, 4, 5, 214n19 excess: in literary art 35, 37, 42, 117–19, 125, 139, 147, 154; of enjoyment (in a psychoanalytical sense) 51, 53 exception: Agamben’s theory of 26, 40, 203, 204, 226n29, 240n68; and exceptionalism 26, 27, 97, 119, 121, 207–10; state of 17, 23, 24, 40, 55–58, 63, 117, 129, 203, 204 exemplarity, 7, 21, 34, 182, 206; and Kafka 41, 56, 63, 71, 73; model 85, 125, 166; moments of democratic experience 16 fantasy, 27, 49, 63, 147, 165, 193; of global order 209–11; as ideology 109, 182; and interpretive literature 8, 117, 145; paranoid 51, 53, 154, 177; in perversion 92–95, 230n36; psychotic 59; of revenge 91; and state 208, 219n69; traversal of 50, 167, 194, 210; and the unity of the people 5, 157 Fiedler, Leslie, 100 fog of war: Clausewitz’s idea, 13, 193, 216n10; as fog of the Cold War 14, 26–28, 39, 125, 128, 183, 218n54 The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (Morris) 13 Forster, E. M., 33 Freud, Sigmund, 5, 12, 87–89, 94, 130 Fuentes, Carlos, 125, 126, 154 Furet, François, 229n24 Gasché, Rodolphe, 57, 191, 225n18 Geertz, Clifford, 123, 124 The Genesis of Secrecy (Kermode) 243n124 Castro, Fidel, 187–90, 194–96, 201, 240n69, 242n102 Ceaușescu, Nicolae, 9, 138–41 De Certeau, Michel, 66, 67 Clausewitz, Carl von, 13, 181, 191–93 communism, 22, 45, 81,89, 90, 98, 105, 108, 113, 118, 132, 146, 155, 156, 167, 171, 172, 177, 190; and the Bolshevik revolution 5, 106, 113, 159, 161; and Christianity 85; containment of and opposition to 19, 20, 26, 111, 128, 183; in Eastern Europe 8, 83, 99, 140, 141; and globalization 144, 156–60, 181, 194, 217n34...