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Terror often happens when you least expect it. That is the point of those who plan and perpetrate it: they want to take people by surprise so that they cannot prepare themselves to resist. The element of surprise is vital, even if it makes the events more shocking when they happen. But how are we to understand the workings of terror and shock and time that it takes to acknowledge the ways in which we have been affected? What ideas of the relationships of bodies, affects and mourning do we need to develop to engage with the traumatic afterlife of 9/11?
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© 2013 Victor Jeleniewski Seidler
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Seidler, V.J. (2013). Terror, Shock and Mourning. In: Remembering 9/11. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137017697_3
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