... onslaughts by US and British forces on Basra,Baghdad, Fallujah, Kandahar, Kabul ,” as well as “the LA riots of 1992 ,” the“continuing suicide bombings in Israeli bars, buses, and malls ,” and the “resource-or ... narrative is reminiscent of film noir onthe one hand and older Chinese-inflected narrative traditions on the other. In filmnoir, dreams refer to the unconscious and reflect a Freudian understanding ... War and post-9/11 periods that largely“entail systematic and planned targeting of cities and urban places ,” and hesuggests the term “‘urbicide’: the deliberate denial, or killing, of the city”...