This is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examines the historical, political, and social significance of 9/11. This collection considers 9/11 as an event situated within the much larger historical context of late late-capitalism, a paradoxical time in which American and capitalist hegemony exist as pervasive and yet under precarious circumstances. Contributors to this collection examine the ways in which 9/11 changed both everything and, at the same time, nothing at all. They likewise examine the implications of 9/11 through a variety of different media and art forms including literature, film, television, and street art.

George Fragopoulos is Assistant Professor of English at Queensborough Community College, CUNY, USA. His scholarly essays have appeared in PMLA, MELUS, the Journal of Greek Media and Culture, and the Journal of Modern Literature. His poetry has appeared in the journals House Organ, Momoware, and The Found Poetry Review. 

Liliana M. Naydan is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State Abington, USA. She researches contemporary American literature and rhetoric and composition, and her work has appeared in journals including The John Updike Review, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, and Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. She is the author of Rhetorics of Religion in American Fiction: Faith, Fundamentalism, and Fanaticism in the Age of Terror.