On the discourse and propaganda of anti-terrorism

Abstract

The subject of my inquiry will be the public discourse on terrorism, which has explicitly unfolded since the “terrorist” attack on the World Trade Centre. In the first part I will focus on some propagandistic schemes that have become apparent in the last few months, then I will continue to analyse some theoretical concepts of the ideological matrix of anti-terrorism and terrorism, which leads me to a critique of war. This article is theoretically based on the legacy of Louis Althusser (his theory on ideology and its effects, as interpreted by Rastko Močnik) and some other contemporary thinkers like Richard Falk.