A Clockwork War: Rhetorics of Time in a Time of Terror

Autor/in	Stahl, Roger
Titel	A Clockwork War: Rhetorics of Time in a Time of Terror
Quelle	In: Quarterly Journal of Speech, 94 (2008) 1, S.73-99 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-5630
Schlagwörter	War; Terrorism; Time; Democracy; Democratic Values; Public Opinion; Rhetoric; World History; Television Viewing; Mass Media Effects; Political Influences; Information Technology; Telecommunications + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Krieg; Terrorismus; Zeit; Demokratie; Öffentliche Meinung; Rhetorik; Weltgeschichte; Fernsehkonsum; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Informationstechnologie; Telekommunikationstechnik
Abstract	Expressions of time have increasingly infused the rhetorical experience of post-industrial war, especially since 9/11. This essay demonstrates how these "signs of time" operate as one of three tropes: deadline/countdown, infinite/infinitesimal war, and the ticking clock. The persistence of such signs of time in public discourse can be seen as an expression of what Paul Virilio has called the "chronopolis," a political universe textured by real-time communication technologies. The chronopolitical will exhibits certain autocratic traits at odds with democratic ideals, primarily the refashioning of citizen identity into that of the "contemporary." The analysis here charts the autocratic rhetoric of the chronopolis as a critical democratic project. (Contains 104 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10