Beyond Who Is Killing Whom

Abstract

Sontag’s construct of who is killing whom becomes a central component to unraveling the phenomenology of terrorism. Any possibility of moving beyond this untenable cycle of violence requires the ability, at least in part, to reconfigure this process of nomic ordering and the types of relationships it constructs and create a more flexible structure of social meanings that can so easily manipulate fear and ignorance. As such, Agamben’s configuration of the Whatever is employed to uncover perhaps the potentialities it offers to provide a strategy by which to escape these unending cycles of violence.