Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: confronting the Abu Ghraib photographs
  • Torture, biopower, and the desiring subject
  • The nonsensical smile of the torturer: documentary form and the logic of enjoyment
  • Torture porn and the desiring subject
  • 24 and the torture fantasy
  • The biotective versus the detective of the real: truth in Zero dark thirty and Homeland
  • Alias and the fictional alternative to torture.