Rending the Terror-Horror Nexus: The Manifest Lie and its Role in Facilitating Acts of Illegitimate Political Violence

C. Ferguson McGregor

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Rending the Terror-Horror Nexus: The Manifest Lie and its Role in Facilitating Acts of Illegitimate Political Violence

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Page Range:: 147–159

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789042028074_009

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Fallacious language plays a central role in the complex relationship between political violence and power. This paper aims to reveal the mechanisms by which the manifest lie, that which is overt, facilitates, and provides meaning for, illegitimate acts of violence. Central to my argument is the notion that the manifest lie operates at the interface between terror and horror, a site eminently suited to promoting the operation of doublethink - the art of concurrently knowing and not knowing, of seeing contradiction, repudiating it, forgetting the repudiation and then forgetting the forgetting. It is our ability to engage in this practice that allows us to remain morally indifferent in the face of overt acts of violence - such as those we have seen transpiring at Camp Delta, Guantánamo Bay - while being acutely aware of the demonstrative brutality of such acts. In essence, the manifest lie, in its unapologetic transparency, magnifies the terrifying visceral impact of political violence, while diminishing the moral condemnation, or horror, of that violence. It is at this point, where horror and terror part company, that we see political violence at its most effective, for where horror is absent, terror is most capable of corralling power.

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丛编： At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, 卷： 61

ISBN:: 9789042028074

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 01 Jan 2010

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