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The American culture of capitalism and consumerism is predicated upon the idea that the individuals inside the system are safe. The years since 2001 have seen such finite illusions of isolation and security irrevocably altered and a collective vulnerability rise in the vacuum. Today, with the birth of social media and immediate information, terrorism—as a form of reprehensible protest and a desperate act of war—has gained a new fundamental resource: violence can be broadcast around the world the instant it happens. But with this technological upheaval, a new rogue brand of vigilantism has been born online, and is continually gaining strength as the reach of the Internet snakes further into everyday life, hypothetically altering the notion of individual power and America’s sense of justice, all while potentially placing more innocent lives in harm’s way. And still, amid the uncharted and ever violent reality of war, technology, and the Internet, there live people: the scarred and delicate tissue of heart and body, ever healing, deceptively vulnerable, and increasingly alone.
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Title
- American, incendiary
Contributors
- Garrison, Gary Joshua (Author)
- Pritchard, Melissa (Thesis advisor)
- Bell, Matt (Committee member)
- Ison, Tara (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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2016
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- thesisPartial requirement for: M.F.A., Arizona State University, 2016
- Field of study: Creative writing
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Statement of Responsibility
by Gary Joshua Garrison