Communication and (Un)Inspired Terror: Toward a Theory of Phatic Violence

IF 4.7 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Communication Theory Pub Date : 2020-08-01 DOI:10.1093/CT/QTZ009

Piotr M. Szpunar

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Abstract

Terrorism has long been theorized as a communicative act. Absent in the array of theories is an adequate consideration of violence committed by third parties (e.g., lone wolves), individuals with no clear link to any group. Often, this complex mediated phenomenon is reduced to the “inspired” reproduction/transmission of a message. For a more nuanced understanding, I develop a theory of phatic violence centered on relation/mediation rather than information/intentionality. The violence of the ambiguous third party, in the first instance, produces a phatic exigency through which bonds might be created or sustained. Any subsequent communion (or its denial) with a group is the result of a mediated ritual process, one that is structured by and regenerates the bonds of antipathy that define the war on terror. Forefronting antipathy in phatic communication enables new understandings of dispersed violence and the horror of the war on terror.

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沟通与(非)受启发的恐怖:一种关于暴力的理论

长期以来，恐怖主义一直被认为是一种交流行为。一系列理论中没有充分考虑到第三方（如独狼）实施的暴力行为，这些人与任何群体都没有明确联系。通常，这种复杂的中介现象被简化为信息的“灵感”复制/传播。为了更细致地理解，我发展了一种以关系/调解而非信息/意向为中心的父权暴力理论。首先，模棱两可的第三方的暴力行为产生了一种可能建立或维持联系的迫切性。随后与一个群体的任何交流（或否认）都是一个中介仪式过程的结果，这个过程由定义反恐战争的反感纽带构建并再生。在父权制的交流中，直面反感使人们对分散的暴力和反恐战争的恐怖有了新的理解。

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