Rethinking the War on Terror -- Writing counterterrorism : the betrayal of the public intellectual -- Who's afraid of Truman Capote? : writers versus counterterrorists -- The terrorist as lover : read my terrorist desire -- Eros, terror, and suicide : life against death -- Antigone, the terrorist : the passage à l'acte that traverses the subject's fantasy -- The Cold War is dead, long live terrorism -- Dr. Strangelove meets the terrorist : on political madness -- 9/11 and the Iraq War as self-fulfilling prophecies -- The passion for ignorance and its catch-22.