Introduction : from images of terror to tabloid geopolitics -- 1. Cyberterror and media-induced fears : the tabloid production of emergency culture -- 2. Tabloid realism and the reconstruction of American security culture before 9/11 -- 3. Discourses of war, geographies of abjection : American intellectuals of statecraft and the avenging of 9/11 -- 4. The United States and the war machine : proliferating insecurity, terror, and agony after the invasion of Iraq -- 5. The sublime spectatorship of the Iraq war : America's tabloid aesthetics of violence and the erasure of the event -- Conclusion : tabloid terror and precarious lives
