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December 30, 2006 — The Day Saddam Hussein Was Executed
Why the war was already over
Why the war was already over
And yet nothing can be undone
How classification, time, and silence neutralize truth
Every empire that ruled Rome is gone. The institution that crowned them is still there. The Vatican survives because its power was never lodged in the man, the territory, or the spectacle, but in the office, the apparatus, the memory, and the calendar, the things that do not depend on being seen.
On memory, repetition, and the management of cultural figures