What is and is not described as “terroristic” in the American context is the result of a relatively recent and highly political process of meaning-making. In this process, specific voices and viewpoints have been allowed to shape and inform the totality of the discussion, while others were simply silenced. Absurd, almost cartoonish in its ideologically-driven selectivity, the discourse on “terrorism” we are burdened with today is, to a great extent, a co-creation of media and political actors. As such, it is one of the most central, unexamined basic assumptions of our current political moment, and one of its most potent and dangerous ones.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 02:57:40 +0000
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