The Terrorist in Kristeva's Abject and Foucault's Antagonism Strategies 2016

Abstract:

This paper explores Julia Kristeva’s discourse of the abject through the lens of Foucault’s antagonism strategies being a way of analysis of government techniques and processes of government of the population domestically, and mobilization into war internationally within the actuality of a world set to function in bio-political mode. The antagonism of strategies is a way of analyzing power relations within society by studying the opposite of the thing one wishes to analyze. The opposite is determined by the binaries defined by the actual conflict pinpointed at the points of contestation and consequently the manifestation of and the proliferation of discourse. So when one speaks of the terrorist one also speaks of government and the law. I compare Foucault’s archeology genealogy and the antagonism of strategies as tools of analysis of terrorism with Julia Kristeva’s semiotic psychoanalysis by taking the notions, of discourse, intertextuality and le langage as central points of comparison.

Research Interests: 

Terrorism, Syrian Conflict, and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant