ATTA : Volume 9 Paperback / softback
by Jarett Kobek
Part of the Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
A disorienting fictionalized portrayal of 9/11 mastermind Mohamed Atta and the meaning of madness. Ours is a century of fear. Governments and mass media bombard us with words and images: desert radicals, "rogue states," jihadists, WMDs, existential enemies of freedom.
We labor beneath myths that neither address nor describe the present situation, monstrous deceptions produced by a sound bite society.
There is no reckoning of actuality, no understanding of the individual lives that inaugurated this echo chamber. In the summer of 1999, Mohamed Atta defended a master's thesis that critiqued the introduction of Western-style skyscrapers in the Middle East and called for the return of the "Islamic-Oriental city." Using this as a departure point, Jarett Kobek's novel ATTA offers a fictionalized psychedelic biography of Mohamed Atta that circles around a simple question: what if 9/11 was as much a matter of architectural criticism as religious terrorism?
Following the development of a socially awkward boy into one of history's great villains, Kobek demonstrates the need for a new understanding of global terrorism.
Joined in this volume by a second work, "The Whitman of Tikrit"-a radical reimagining of Saddam Hussein's last day before capture-ATTA is a brutal, relentless, and ultimately fearless corrective to ten years of propaganda and pandering.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:Autonomedia
- Publication Date:05/08/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781584351061
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:Autonomedia
- Publication Date:05/08/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781584351061
