Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Timely convergence: 9/11, resistance, and popular culture -- Introduction -- Politics and aesthetics: 9/11 and the sensible paradigm -- Another quadrangle: 9/11, sensible interventions, popular culture, and international relations -- Methodology -- Chapter overview -- 2 A new target of resistance: 9/11 and Rancière's paradigm of the sensible -- Rancière and the sensible: the aesthetics of politics -- Catastrophe and the sensible -- Displacing Rancière -- 3 An American tale from the margins: decentering 9/11 narratives -- The oppositional 9/11 novel -- Multiple temporalities and shifting identities -- Excluded body as speaking subject -- The speaking subject in doubt -- Conclusion -- 4 Restaging the war on terror and nationhood: political rap's sonic resistance -- Rhymed anger with a beat: political rap and Paris -- Contesting 9/11: a prelude -- Reframing sounds of terror and war -- Redefining 9/11 key terms -- Post-9/11 United Streets of America -- Blind spots: Paris's politics and Rancière's critique -- Conclusion -- 5 Oppositional banality: watching ordinary Muslims in Little Mosque on the Prairie -- Little Mosque's big ambitions -- Islam within a regime of visibility: mixing bodies and genres -- Seeing Muslim bodies differently -- Watching convivial relationships -- From oppositional banality to banal opposition? -- 6 Faces of the enemy: the Taliban in a photography studio -- Finding the Taliban, serendipitously -- Space and time out of joint: relocating the Taliban to an elsewhere -- Oppositional mourning as sensible intervention? -- A dissensual visuality -- Seeing and not seeing -- 7 Conclusion -- The sensible: contributions and disjunctions -- Sensible interventions' impermanence -- Index