"In another time-zone, the bombs fall unsafely ....": Targets, Civilians, and Late Modern War
"In another time-zone, the bombs fall unsafely ....": Targets, Civilians, and Late Modern War
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“在另一个时区,炸弹不安全地落下……”:目标、平民和现代战争晚期
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2011
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D. Gregory
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D. Gregory
My title comes from a poem by Blake Morrison, ‘Stop’, which was reprinted in an anthology to aid children’s charities in Lebanon compiled by Anna Wilson after the Israeli assault on that country during the summer of 2006. The poem speaks directly to the ideology of late modern war – to what Christopher Coker praises as the ‘re-enchantment’ of war through its rhetorical erasure of death 1 – and to its dissonance from ‘another’ time and space where bombs continue to ‘fall unsafely’. It begins like this: