Articles by Susan Willis

• Guantánamo’s Symbolic Economy
  • Susan Willis

  in NLR 39, May-June 2006, pp. 123-131
  Subjects: United States
  

  How to explain the importance to the US Administration of the primitive torture facilities at Guantánamo Bay? Incarceration and intelligence farming, as imagined by LeGuin or Philip K. Dick, and strategies—active and passive—for resisting reduction to ‘bare life’.

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  Also available in Spanish
• Empire's Shadow
  • Susan Willis

  in NLR 22, July-August 2003, pp. 59-70
  Subjects: United States
  

  From letters to Bin Laden to Washington’s own Tora Bora for the Federal Government, West Wing to simulations of the seizure of Panama or Kirkuk in the pinelands of North Carolina, the blurring of the fantasmatic and the unreal in a bunker society.

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• Captured by the Screen
  • Susan Willis

  in NLR I/221, January-February 1997, pp. 156-160
  Subjects: Aesthetics
  

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