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The Globalization of Fear

Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje

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EntertainmentGlobalizationPolitical scienceField (Bourdieu)TerrorismSpectacleMedia studiesEconomic systemCapitalismEvent (philosophy)Virtuous circle and vicious circle

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In this chapter, we combine the advances of other disciplines to expand our understanding of terrorism and the fields of emotions. In this respect, as L. Howie puts it, the media industry engendered a culture of witnessing which not only is conducive to terrorism, but enlarged fear to other continents. The globalization of fear operates in a new field which is based on what Baudrillard named ‘the spectacle of disaster’. Though this vicious circle between the spectatorship of disaster and terrorism not to be broken, the problem is far from being solved. Terrorism and 9/11 as founding event ignited a new stage of capitalism which Korstanje called ‘Thana-Capitalism’. Unlike modern sociologist imagined risk-society, Thana-Capitalism characterizes by commoditizing others’ suffering as a form of entertainment for a global audience.

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2017-08-12
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52252-4_7