O lugar da cultura no contexto pós-Onze de Setembro

Abstract

This essay examines the effects on culture of the new systems of security and surveillance put in place after the September 11 attacks. Already transformed by processes of globalization, and indeed, contributing to these processes, culture is a major site of conflict and control in the wake of the attacks: contestatory movements, many of which are constituted culturally, are identified with terrorism; Hollywood films, the electronic and the printed press are recruited in behalf of security; new cultural forms of control are devised. Ultimately, the war on terrorism also manages to protect the regime of accumulation put in place by the Washington Consensus. Can the antiglobalization movement take on the new security regime?

Keywords

• terrorism
• globalization
• September 11 - 2001
• surveillance
• social control
• contestatory movements