For Baudrillard, the attacks on the World Trade Center were the first and the last symbolic event of global significance. With the World Trade Center, terrorism destroyed the center of Western imperialism that existed worldwide. The terrorist events thereafter have …
Yesterday there was a terrorist attack in Hanau, Germany. It seems that the white male terrorist killed 9 persons in 2 Shisha-Bars, later killed his mother and himself. Most of the victims seem to belong to Kurdish communities. The killing …
Antiterrorism, contrary to what the term would suggest, is not a means to fight against terrorism, it is the method by which the political enemy is positively produced as a terrorist. It is a matter, by a luxury of provocation, …
He who designates the terrorist, in this world, is sovereign: The “Tarnac affair”
…Covenant technology? That’s the fusion of covenant theology and the will to technology as the essence of the American Republic, from its religious origins to its technocratic future. Here we are in the presence of a momentous alliance of two …
Arthur Kroker: BORN AGAIN IDEOLOGY Religion, Technology, and Terrorism
Stefano Harney and Randy Martin (2007) I. Capital’s Excesses Bataille’s vision bathes us all in the lap of luxury. So much of the political is cast in terms of lack-an insufficiency of activism, organization, theory, or resources to mobilize, …