Publications

Authors:

DE CORDOVA, Federica

Title:

Kamikaze's paradise

Year:

2012

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Italiano

Format:

Elettronico

Referee:

Sì

Name of journal:

ALTRE MODERNITÀ

ISSN of journal:

2035-7680

Number or Folder:

7

Page numbers:

14-23

Keyword:

kamikaze; terrorismo; simbolizzazione della violenza; culturalizzazione del martirio.

Short description of contents:

The terrorist attack on the Twin Towers on 11 September 2001 represents a pivotal moment in the dynamic that shapes the explanatory and identification category of "the West" in a crisis of relationship with the "other" that has taken on the tone of a clash of civilizations . Within this scenario, the present work starts from the interpretation of the suicide terrorist as kamikaze to develop a reflection on the construction of the categories we/other in contemporary Western society. The image of the martyr who seeks - through the bomb that will destroy his earthly life - a road to paradise is an archaic paradox that still resonates in us, reduced to a simplified simulacrum, in itself sufficient to explain the absurdity of a gesture so powerfully destructive. The paradise of the suicide bomber assumes the function of a screen that allows us to distance ourselves from the other, confine him to a world totally alien, so different as to be driven by irrationality and inhumanity. In a society that is increasingly immune and saved from the negative, the image of paradise becomes a necessary filter to face the destructive event, avoiding the need to relate with it in an attempt to understand.

Web page:

http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/2133

Product ID:

70534

Handle IRIS:

11562/422139

Deposited On:

July 11, 2012

Last Modified:

October 26, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

DE CORDOVA, Federica, Kamikaze's paradise «ALTRE MODERNITÀ» , n. 7 , 2012 , pp. 14-23

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