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SUMMARY:"The Aesthetic Politics of Caliphal Legitimacy: ISIS"
DESCRIPTION:ILLINIOS\n\nSpeaker: Dr. Amanda Rogers\, University of Wiscons
 in-Madison\, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow\n\nDescription: \n\nIn
  contrast to conventional media portrayals of ISIS as “barbaric\, irrati
 onal terrorists\,” I argue that the so-called “Islamic State” exhibi
 ts a considerable degree of coordinated and programmatic calculation\, tow
 ards the fulfillment of a coherent objective: political sovereignty. ISIS 
 does not simply aim for the nostalgic utopia of a resurrected caliphate\, 
 but the establishment of a radically innovative mode of governance with su
 bsequent international recognition—affectively transnational\, and spati
 ally anchored in definable\, controlled territory. This analysis of strate
 gic messaging focuses on organization’s deliberate deployment of recogni
 zable communication models\, rooted in the globalized financial\, informat
 ion\, and political marketplace’s operative logics—notably\, public di
 plomacy\, corporate-styled PR\, and the instigation of self-replicating 
 “buzz” for viral campaigns.\n\nBio: \n\nDr. Amanda E. Rogers serves a
 s an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-M
 adison\, Postcolonialist editorial board member\, Muftah.Org staff writer\
 , and works as a freelance photojournalist and political analyst—appeari
 ng in such forums as the BBC\, Frontline Club\, Al-Jazeera\, and The New Y
 ork Times. Her forthcoming book\, Semiotics of Rebellion From Morocco to E
 gypt: Advertising Revolution and Marketing Allegiance\, focuses on the pol
 iticization of heritage\, arts\, and culture by regime officials and oppos
 ition actors\, at levels local\, regional\, and international—amidst cla
 ustrophobic globalization\, “image wars” increasingly predominate in t
 ransnational theaters of combat.\n\nLunch Served\n\n
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