Heterotopias

Naomi Klein在In These TImes上新發表了一文：How to End the War。當世界多半的人逐漸遺忘的時候，她繼續追問，布希侵略伊拉克真正的理由是什麼？當民主、自由都成謊言時，唯有真正的答案，才能讓人們變成真正的反戰份子。Naomi Kleni在伊拉克所見所聞是，到處都是以美軍的基地為中心重建工程，地處都是推土機，在所有重建過程中，伊拉克政府根本插不上手。這在美國媒體上是看不到的，這才是終極的伊拉克政權轉移（Extreme Makover:Iraq），這場戰爭不是佔領、侵略，而是擁有伊拉克。

......And the message is: “Everything you were before isn’t worth rebuilding.” We’re going to import a brand-new country. It is the Iraq version of the “Extreme Makeover.”

It’s not a coincidence that Americans were at home watching this explosion of extreme reality television shows where people’s bodies were being surgically remade and their homes were being bulldozed and reconstituted. The message of these shows is: Everything you are now, everything you own, everything you do sucks. We’re going to completely erase it and rebuild it with a team of experts. You just go limp and let the experts take over. That is exactly what “Extreme Makover:Iraq” is.

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