Semantic and philosophical redefinitions are being weaponized to legitimate state violence.

Evidence

Another important point is that amid the general uncertainty fueled by a created crisis, lurking within the fog of war, large-scale intellectual maneuvers are in the offing and semantic coups are being plotted. In fact, a whole collection of theoretical offensives are being launched with the aim of appropriating, twisting, and redefining concepts that, by naming and theorizing violence, allow it to be legitimately exercised. More than ever, philosophy is a battlefield. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 122

Categorization

• SEED: The framing of ‘philosophy as a battlefield’ where concepts are seized to legitimate killing invites an essay on how terminology wars precede and enable actual killing.
• XREF: connects to: The hunter-state model redefines armed violence around pursuing prey rather than fixed territory.; Moral philosophy is now being deployed to facilitate war; Bureaucratic-juridical vocabulary itself euphemizes the violence of drone strikes. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 491 (+9 more)

Related

• Moral philosophy is now being deployed to facilitate war (similarity 0.83)
• The state perpetuates Islam-violence associations to justify expanding its authority (similarity 0.78)
• Bureaucratic-juridical vocabulary itself euphemizes the violence of drone strikes. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Islamophobic tropes become real violence through perceived enemy images #exemplifies (0.85)
• The state perpetuates Islam-violence associations to justify expanding its authority #exemplifies (0.80)
• Hate violence can be state-encouraged rather than merely irrational individual deviance #expands (0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 101
• Clash-of-civilizations rhetoric ideologically legitimized both foreign wars and domestic attacks #exemplifies (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 421
• Islamophobia is driven by state violence rather than mere ignorance #exemplifies (0.70)
• State denunciation of hate crimes obscures state complicity in producing those harms #expands (0.70) — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 33