Terror as normality
By Joseph Masco | November 7, 2013
Reflecting on two US-engineered Cold War programs and plans, the author finds how terror, over past decades, has become a normal element in everyday US life. The historic period that saw the Corona satellite and the Single Integrated Operational Plan come to light, the author argues, taught Americans to be committed to total war as a precondition for everyday life—while locating death as exterior to the nation.
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Joseph Masco
Joseph Masco is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of ... Read More
