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The present paper proposes the parallels between ‘staged’ incidences of terrorism and ‘spectacular public disorder’ as a supplementary reading of terrorism. I claim that, while the spectacular in both is not par se- or even an exhaustive- account of how terrorism functions, there is an aspect of what the French philosopher Alain Badiou) has referred to as Passage a l’acte (‘blind acting out’)- coined apropos of the 2006 Paris riots- which should exercise our attention. The methodology of passage a l’acte is to draw maximum attention to an issue by letting the extended post-attack coverage ‘do the talking’. The article also shows how ‘phatic communication’, a term coined by Malinowski, is an important component of passage a l’acte
| Acceptance Date | May 1, 2016 |
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| Publication Date | May 17, 2016 |
| Journal | Journal of Terrorism Research |
| Publisher | Ubiquity Press |
| Pages | 91-102 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.15664/jtr.1192 |
| Keywords | Terrorism, Terror, Terrorist, Jihad, Islamism |
| Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.15664/jtr.1192 |
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