ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of the book. The book contributes to ongoing debates on 9/11 on three separate fronts relating to historiography, themes, and theory. It focuses on the accretion of 9/11 scholarship by tracing the events' lingering cultural legacies in global politics. The book discusses popular culture's engagement with the attacks beyond the established themes of trauma, commemoration, and patriotism by focusing on cultural objects that manifest oppositionality. It explores the oppositionality to the broader category of cultural resistance and proposes a new disruptive force. The book analyses how the case studies challenge and push the boundaries of multiple post-9/11 sensible orders, and demonstrates the possibilities of sensible dimensions as a different approach to post-9/11 politics and resistance. It also demonstrates that popular cultural artifacts engage effectively with the sensorial through what might be described by Jill Bennett as 'practical aesthetics' when discussing the contemporary role of artistic practices.
