Deconstructing Terrorism: trauma, perversions and auto-immunities
| Autor | Augusto Jobim do Amaral |
| Ocupação do Autor | PhD in Contemporary Studies (History of Ideas) from the University of Coimbra (Portugal), Master in Criminal Sciences from the Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) |
| Páginas | 2903-2908 |
Working Group: War and international Law • 2903
Deconstructing Terrorism
Trauma, perversions and auto-immunities
Augusto Jobim do Amaral1
Abstract: This short paper intends, since the radical thought of deconstruction,
interferesinthereectiononterrorismseemasasymptomofanautoimmune
crisis that cross through the democratic territory. In this sense, in a way that
makes it possible to destabilize the discursive structural properties which com-
monly keep the debate about this subject, it will be necessary to perceive the vi-
ral violence caused by the traumatic experience of what is called September 11th
SIfafterthehitoftheeconomicandmilitaryorderheadsymbolwecould
far beyond the physiological point of view, perceive the temporality of trauma
produced in the future, it will be possible to touch the auto-evident node of the
vicious circle of repression. Such auto-immune perversion that sends forth a
threaten of the worse to come, on the one hand, seems to have as the exactly
targeta kindof selfcompassionarrogant vulnerabilitythat becomesa per-
fectalibiforthecommiingbigatrocitieseven worseinanorgyofpowerto
extreme the deregulation and disorder logic that feeds the speculative logic in
a market scale. The foisted idea of a ´major event´ brings together the abolition
of any principle and notion of causality, kidnapping and asphyxiating future
itself, in a kind non ending war in which prevention – anticipation as if it
was a ´non-war´ state –, perpetuated terror and security obsession take in this
order the strategic primacy. As a suction bomb, the higher representation, in
democracy, of spontaneous suicide of its own defense mechanisms is placated
by the perpetual familiarity state with terror, principle of total insecurity that,
farfrompayingaentiontotheheteronomycamefromtheotherinitsirreduc-
ibleandnonappropriabledierencefortifythecontroldevices andregenerate
exactlywhatiswassupposedtodisarmpresentingitselfasanuniversalgure
of the power incapable of supporting the diversity spectrum.
Keywords: Deconstruction. Terrorism. Democracy.
1 * PhD in Contemporary Studies (History of Ideas) from the University of Coimbra
(Portugal), Master in Criminal Sciences from the Catholic University of Rio Grande
do Sul (PUCRS); Specialist in Criminal Science PUCRS, Specialist in Criminal Law by
the European Economic and Coimbra University and Professor of Philosophy of Law,
Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure PUCRS.
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