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