Tag Archives: Terrorism history

terrorism: feeding the resentment

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Dave

…Every act of terrorism begins, in the eyes of its practitioners, as an instance of counterterrorism. The most murderous cases of terrorism in this century have ostensibly been counterterroristic measures by the police in Stalin’s Russia and Hitler’s Germany; and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Lacan, Jean Paul Sartre, Leon Trotsky, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Russian Poland insurrection 1863, Slavoj Zizek, Terrorism history | Leave a comment

madness alone is truly terrifying

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Dave

or so said Joseph Conrad. The terrorists… …In nineteenth-century usage, however, attacks on the official establishment were conventionally terms acts of terror, and their perpetrators were ipso facto terrorists. Underlying the verbal convention lay a common pool of genuine fear: … Continue reading →