Thousand Paper Cuts
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Cold War
critical ethnic studies
critical information studies
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
detainee interrogation videos
Edward Shils
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Freedom of Information Act FOIA
government transparency
Guantanamo
Guantanamo Diary
John Moss
John Yoo Torture memos
militarism
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
paperwork
permanent war
redaction
social movements
transnational American Studies
visual culture
War on Terror
Product details
- ISBN 9781478032854
- Weight: 445g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2025
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In A Thousand Paper Cuts, Anjali Nath considers the paper worlds made and destroyed by US imperialism. From the slogans of anti-Communist Cold Warriors against a spectral “Paper Curtain” to the scuttled efforts of activists who sought to document America’s surveillance regime amidst the US war on Vietnam, Nath offers a pre-history of the redacted visions of the Homeland Security age. Nath shows how declassified documents tell the story of American counterinsurgency at home and abroad, revealing the imperial grammar beneath of the abundant redactions of contemporary visual culture. Tracing the liberal political rhetoric that inspired the Freedom of Information Act in the 1960s, through to the Bush-era’s exuberant secrecy, to the contemporary artists who subversively repurpose redacted documents in collage and critique, Nath maps the formation of the security state, its bureaucratic regimes of surveillance, and the racial logic of transparency.
Anjali Nath is Assistant Professor in the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga.
