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POST WAR AS RETRO WAR The flow reduces their differences to basic
equivalents, corrodes their borders as meaningful
Various spectacular treatments of social relations barriers, and eliminates older geopolitical divisions
can be continuously coded and recoded in of "them" and "US," "inside" and "outside,"
streams of images, which constitute a peculiar "foreign" and "domestic."
political discourse about, but also within, the
regime of transnational corporate society. In hyperrealism today, the simulation of reality, like
President Bush's new world order as a spectacular
One of the most fundamental and long-lasting
resurrection of World War II's grand alliance,
becomes "real," but real only within the image7
scripts for these transnational discourses in the
known to be readily accessible and comprehensible
twentieth century is the mythology of World War
to the flow's mass clienteles in the ever-flexible
II.
World War II scripts.
Whenever and wherever a small, weak nation is
threatened by a larger, stronger nation, or a
As we might learn from Kuwait, the actual
militaristic authoritarian dictator challenges a transnationality of the United States perhaps is
relatively peaceful neighboring society, the becoming much more significant. The codes of
discursive work-ups of World War I1 can be containment and discourse of security, once
flexibly deployed to interpret, explain, and pounded out in a metallurgic/technicurgic era of
legitimate elite and mass responses in readily geopolitical realism, are being recoded to boot into
accessible and virtually uncontestable rhetorical the semiurgic hegemony of informational power,
terms. responding to the political possibilities intrinsic to
Any present conflict to events, persons, or chronopolitical hyperrealism.
organizations in World War can generate
tremendous symbolic energies to direct against
the opponent as well as to fuel domestic support. -JUN REX V. SALO-
From the invasion’s beginnings in August 1990, Reporter
Saddam Hussein and Iraq provided a
hermeneutic field day for US and global