Destroying terrorists creates replayable atrocity images that amplify terror

Evidence

Destroy all the infrastructure, kill all the operatives: but you will have only created more images of atrocity; indestructible and infinitely replayable repositories of affect, which, by demanding response and producing (a usually entirely justified) recrimination, act as the best intensifiers and amplifiers of Terror. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1454

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off ch74’s claim that exceptional real-world events feel cinematic because screens insulate us from the Real — here the image-repository logic backfires on the state. — connects to: Mediatized terror treats media as constitutive rather than reflective of conflict — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 359; Treating enemies as vermin to be exterminated actually amplifies the terror it targets — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1454; Mediatized war hyperreality enables real mass death rather than obscuring it — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1452

Broader Connections

• Mediatized terror treats media as constitutive rather than reflective of conflict #expands (0.72) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 359