For Derrida, the identification of 9/11 as pure time stripped away the possibility of resolution; ‘this weapon is terrifying because it comes from the to-come, from the future, a future so radically to come that is resists even the grammar of the future anterior.’ (link)
Less a tragedy than a shattering of innocence or fall-from-grace, the ensuing omnicrisis presented the United States with but one choice – containment through annihilation.
