Table of contents : Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments 1 Problematizing Chthonic Security: Iraq as a Site of Investigation 2 Transubstantiatory Violence 3 Hegemony and the State: Towards an Understanding of Social Complicity and Political Violence in Iraq 4 Chthonic Constitutions: Violence and Iraqi State-Formation 5 States of Tolerance: [Ideal]ology, Violence, and the Iraqi Communist Movement 6 Transubstantiatory Violence and the Militant/Multitude Problematic 7 Saddam in Furs: Social Complicity and Regime Violence Afterword Notes Bibliography Index