“A General Principle of Democracy”
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“Terror,” like “security,” is a keyword of contemporary political and economic order. This chapter denaturalizes the term’s latter-day resonance via an examination of its longer history within the context of a specifically colonial modernity. The politics of terror, this chapter contends, are expressed in and by three primary modalities. In the first instance, terror—the sublime terror of the state of nature—is a pretext for the imposition of imperial power. In the second instance, terror is a method employed by the imperial security state to guarantee the conditions and outcome of capital accumulation. Finally, terror is a strategy of resistance to colonial violence.
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Vol 21
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pp. 445-462
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