Table of Contents for Conflicted

Conflicted
Making News from Global War
Isaac Blacksin

Preface

Introduction: War's Lobby: The Displacements of Journalism in Wartime

Interlude: Cheapening Experience

Part I: The Language of War Reportage and Its Conditions

1.Folklore of the Future: The Certainty of Journalistic Expression

2.Visible System and Invisible Rules: Commodifying Common Sense

Interlude: Available Stories

Part II: The Meaning of War Reportage and Its Exclusions

3.Extermination as Protection: Depoliticizing War, Remoralizing Violence

4.Power Speaking to Truth: Struggles with the Problem of War

Interlude: What to Make of It

Part III: The Practice of War Reportage and Its Contradictions

5.Writing Conflicts: The Tension Between Experience and Expression

6.Agitation at the Margins: Return of the Journalistically Repressed

Interlude: Leaving Mosul

Conclusion: War's Exit: Entangled Possibility in the Age of Endless Conflict

Epilogue: From Mosul to Mariupol

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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