Frames of War begins where Butler"s Precarious Livesleft off: on the idea that we cannot grieve for those lost lives thatwe never saw as lives to begin with. In this age of CNN-mediated war,the lives of those wretched populations of the earth--the refugees;the victims of unjust imprisonment and torture; the immigrantsvirtually enslaved by their starvation and legal disenfranchisement--are always presented to us as already irretrievable and thereby alreadylost. We may shake our heads at their wretchedness but then wesacrifice them nonetheless, for they are already forgone. Byanalyzing the different frames through which we experience war, Butlercalls for a reorientation of the Left toward the precarity of thoselives. Only by recognizing those lives as precarious lives--lives thatare not yet lost but are ever fragile and in need of protection--mightthe Left stand in unity against the violence perpetrated througharbitrary state power.