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Our Wound is Not So Recent - Thinking the Paris Killings of 13 November (Hardcover)
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Our Wound is Not So Recent - Thinking the Paris Killings of 13 November (Hardcover)
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On 13 November 2015, Paris suffered the second wave of brutal
terrorist attacks in a year, leaving 130 dead and many more
seriously injured. How are we to make sense of these violent acts
and what do they tell us about the forces shaping our world today?
In this short book the influential philosopher Alain Badiou argues
that while these violent events are commonly portrayed as acts of
Islamic terrorism, in fact they attest to a much deeper malaise
that is connected to the triumph of global capitalism and to new
forms of imperialism that involve the weakening of states, such
that whole regions of the world have been turned into ungovernable
zones run by armed gangs in which ordinary people are forced to
live the most precarious lives. These zones have become the
breeding ground for a new kind of nihilism that seeks revenge for
the domination of the West. And it is this new nihilism, on to
which Islam has been grafted, that exerts a particular appeal to
the young men and women on the margins who carried out the
atrocities in Paris. The tragedy of 13 November might appear at
first sight to be rooted in immigration and Islam but our wound is
not so recent: it is rooted in a deeper set of transformations that
have reshaped our world, creating small islands of privilege amidst
large masses of the destitute and depriving us of a politics that
would offer a serious alternative to the present.
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