On the 19th November, I had a lecture on terrorism. Terrorism is the calculated use of violence or the threat of violence against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear. In the lecture, we discussed about the 9/11, when suicide bombers hijacked United States airliners and used then as bombers on 11th September 2001. According to Baurdrillard the event 9/11 went far beyond a real attack, he believes it was an attack of mythic, symbolic and utterly humiliating proportions. Not a real event, but a symbolic “absolute event”. Baurdrillard believes that the terrorists destroyed the notion of a global world order based on universal, consensual, democratic values. Exploring these symbolic resonance, baurdrillard argues that the widespread moral condemnation following the attacks spring from a collective effort to mask our “prodigious jubilation at seeing this global superpower destroyed…they did it, but we wished for it” (lecture notes).
Lovepreet Kaur
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