| INTRODUCTION
John Knechtel | 21 |
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| ELEPHANTS [FICTION]
Is there life on Saturn? Is life possible in Texas? Father and daughter and other-worldly creatures attempt an answer.
J. P. Singh | 24 |
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| WHO IS THE SUSPECT? [ESSAY]
Holmes and Marlowe are enlisted to investigate the logic of the suspect, and find that logic is harder then it looks.
Mark Kingwell | 33 |
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| SUSPECT [FILM]
A sleeping woman wakes up to find an intruder in her home. She chases her, catches her, but can't think of what to do next.
Patricia Rozema | 58 |
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| DETAINED: IRAQ 2003 [PHOTO ESSAY]
Iraqis are detained by the US military.
Rita Leistner | 96 |
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| RUMSFELD'S UNKNOWN KNOWN, OR IRAQ'S INITIATION INTO DEMOCRATIC PRACTICE [ESSAY]
Recent events at Abu Ghraib resemble nothing so much as the initiation rites of American frat houses.
Slavoj Žižek | 108 |
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| BEFORE AND AFTER [DRAWINGS]
Drawings track jpeg images of the war in Iraq using a homemade separation technique; they are done as rubbings with window screening and crayons.
Stephen Andrews | 120 |
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| SUSPECT STATES: KANT'S ADVICE FOR THE UNITED NATIONS [ESSAY]
Immanuel Kant--the United Nations' philosophical architect--is asked how the world body should deal with suspect states that threaten the international order.
George Bragues | 128 |
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| LIBERALISM, OR WHAT RIGHTS LOOK LIKE IN A SHIPWRECK [ESSAY]
Can liberalism defend itself, if the idea of universal rights means it can't recognize suspects or enemies when it needs to?
Kent U. Enns | 142 |
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| SHOCKS [INTERVIEW]
Shock therapy drove the American agenda in the suspect nation of Iraq.
Naomi Klein | 159 |
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| BRANDON MAYFIELD, SUSPECT [ESSAY]
What makes a suspect? Fingerprint evidence and "suspicious" facts in the case of Brandon Mayfield, who was eventually cleared in the Madrid train bombing.
Simon A. Cole | 170 |
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| REGULATING TRAFFIC: AMSTERDAM, BEIJING, LONDON [ESSAY]
Security surveillance technologies in three cities watch over and sort massive flows of people.
Heather Cameron | 186 |
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| THE SEQUEL [CHOOSE-YOUR-OWN-STORY]
In a city called The Sequel you, the reader, are the protagonist, recruited by the city's secret managers, the Department of Fictional Characters.
Joey Dubuc | 194 |
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| INTERFERENCE [ARTWORK]
Webcam views disrupted by reflection, frost, condensation, insects, and sun flares.
Cheryl Sourkes | 224 |
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| SEKTOR'S SUSPICIONS [ESSAY]
Secret police film a Polish man setting himself on fire to protest the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
George Z. Gasyna | 234 |
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| ABOVE SUSPICION [ESSAY]
In the 1970 Italian film Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion a police official investigates a murder he himself committed.
S. D. Chrostowska | 240 |
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| PURGATORIO [PLAY]
A man and a woman in a room. An asylum? A hospital? A prison? He has all the power to interrogate her, set her free. And she has... a secret. One of the two will win. Or perhaps they will both lose.
Ariel Dorfman | 245 |
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| SINGING AGAINST THE TIDE: THE HANDMAID'S TALE IN TORONTO [MEMOIR]
An opera director finds himself creating a fictional right-wing American theocracy, just as George W. Bush is campaigning for re-election....
Michael Walling | 262 |
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| 99 PIECES OF AMAN [INSTALLATION]
Ninety-nine individual facemasks embroidered with the ninety-nine names of Allah represent the promise of security (aman) in traditional Islamic culture.
Alia Toor | 273 |
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| MEALTIME [FICTION]
In the early 1970s Rafa Ahmed hijacked a plane in a coordinated attack by the PFLP. Many years later she is to appear at a peace conference in Canada.
Diana Fitzgerald Bryden | 282 |
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| BROTHER SUSPECT [ESSAY]
Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" presents a model for overcoming suspicion in a climate of threat and fear.
Jeanne Randolph | 304 |
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| THINGS COLLAPSE [FICTION]
In the year 2024, the USA PATRIOT Act is used to isolate thousands in secret internment camps in response to an epidemic of unknown origin. A son discovers that those like his father who were infected did not necessarily die of illness, but of isolation.
Camilla Gibb | 310 |
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| SUSPECT CULTURE [GRAPHIC NOVEL]
Artist Steven Kurtz was arrested under the USA PATRIOT Act after an EMS worker attending the death of Kurtz's wife called the FBI about his petri dish artworks.
Timothy Stock and Warren Heise | 332 |
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