Terror-Dot-Gov
Paperback or Softback 156 pages Jun 14, 2005
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As in Harold Jaffe's two previous "docufiction" collections, False Positive and 15 Serial Killers, the author of Terror-Dot-Gov selects then "treats" his texts such that the reader is incapable of distinguishing between fact and fiction. That ambiguity permits Jaffe to cunningly tease out the contradictions and subtexts of official "news" or "information" and torque it into what it so often is fundamentally: jingoism, xenophobia and propaganda. Jaffe's subject in Terror-Dot-Gov is not the everywhere-represented "illicit" terrorism so much as "licit," institutionalized terrorism, and he assaults his subject from multiple angles: razor-sharp satire, precisely cadenced rhetoric, faux-reportage, and "unsituated" dialogues (Jaffe's term, referring to his trademark talking heads with perfect pitch). The result is virtuosic and paradoxical: a prodigious display of firepower-in the cause of peace.
- Author:
- Harold Jaffe
- Publisher:
- Raw Dog Screaming Press
- Publication Date:
- Jun 14, 2005
- Number of pages:
- 156 pages
- Binding:
- Paperback or Softback
- ISBN-10:
- 1933293098
- ISBN-13:
- 9781933293097