9/11 News Coverage
9/11 News Coverage
This chapter explores the social reality and function of remembering traumatic events such as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack (9/11). It argues that the news coverage and mass media's appropriation and repetition of 9/11 images, along with the public's will to consume these, constitutes a repressive and authoritarian social organisation, one which comes from converting the libidinal effects and energies of memory labour into a habitual, albeit paranoid memory. The chapter discusses Gilles Deleuze's concept of reterritorialisation and explains that metaphysically engaging memory is what constitutes a reterritorialising memory.
Keywords: 9/11, news coverage, traumatic events, social organisation, libidinal effects, memory labour, paranoid memory, Gilles Deleuze, reterritorialisation
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