A Reconsideration of Imaginative Points of Resistance
9/11 and surprise attacks
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v12i1.1704Keywords:
imagination, resistance, constrains, surprise attacks, security, epistemologyAbstract
In this short piece, I want to explore the idea that limits of imagination, that I refer to here as to ‘points of resistance’, can play an essential role in certain imaginative tasks. To show how points of resistance can be carriers of crucial information, I focus here on the analysis of 9/11. Leaving aside personal and political implications, I investigate the possible plausibility of some statements of the US Secretary of the Defense at the time of the attacks, attributing the cause of 9/11 to imagination. I propose that, despite being dismissed as an outrageous analysis of responsibilities involved in the success of the terroristic attacks, there could be a role that a failure of imagination might have played.
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