Rhetorical insurgents: Biopolitics and the insurrectionary rhetoric of McLuhan's cool media

This essay examines the subversive political potential of censored cartoons by the Guantánamo prisoner, Sami al-Hajj. In McLuhan's terms, these cartoons constitute cool media, which I read as a rhetorical response to biopolitical (Foucault) forms of governmental power. I conclude by reflecting...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Canadian Review of American Studies
Main Author: Murray, S.J. (Stuart J.)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2012
Subjects:
biopolitics
biopolitique
cartoons
cool media
dessins
Guantánamo
insurrection
Marshall McLuhan
médium froid
Michel Foucault
Sami al-Hajj
sami
Online Access:https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/19439
https://doi.org/10.3138/cras.42.2.123
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Summary:This essay examines the subversive political potential of censored cartoons by the Guantánamo prisoner, Sami al-Hajj. In McLuhan's terms, these cartoons constitute cool media, which I read as a rhetorical response to biopolitical (Foucault) forms of governmental power. I conclude by reflecting on the ethical demands of such media.

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