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Why does the US torture people who it knows have no actionable intelligence? What does paranoia have to do with torture conducted at places like Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo? What has the commentary surrounding the Abu Ghraib photographs crucially ignored? Anne McClintock weighs in on these and other matters.
Anne McClintock's comments are really wonderful for their psychological insight. More and more I'm finding politics fairly useless without psychology. With Dr. McClintock's attention paid to (our confusing and confused) emotional life we have much more ability to be effective than we do with the standard left-progressive understanding of psychology as merely derivative of objective material conditions.
I found the abstract to the article:
http://smallaxe.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/13/1/50
This was a very interesting, though rather disturbing, interview, especially timely given the recent decision by the Obama administration to keep some of the detainees of Guantanamo indefinitely. Makes me wonder about all that change talk - it seems more like the empire is continuing. Could you please link to the article that you are referencing in the interview?
I am looking forward to your next interview of Anne McClintock!
Well, at first I thought that Anne McClintock would just be rehashing alot of stuff that's already been said, but there were some new ideas in there and I ended up listening to the whole thing.
Hey, what was the musical selection in the last break ... the sitar and bass? That was great.
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