Terror enforces social oblivion that exceeds biological death

Evidence

The real horror of the concentration and extermination camps lies in the fact that the inmates, even if they happen to keep alive, are more effectively cut off from the world of the living than if they had died, because terror enforces oblivion. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 991

Categorization

• XREF: This picks up the theme of ‘being made to disappear’ — connects directly to the reading purpose’s concern with statelessness and the rendering-bare of persons. — connects to: Terror operates outside language games and destroys the social bond — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 343
• DEEPTHINKING: A densely packed claim: social death as more total than biological death, with terror as its mechanism — this is a core scaffolding concept for the whole field.