Historicizing the Christchurch Shooting
| Main Author: | Kelly, Catherine |
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| Format: | Article Journal |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2020
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/3763329 |
Daftar Isi:
- This article historicizes the 2019, white supremacist terror attack in Christchurch, New Zealand. Using Weber’s model of crisis and institutionalization as a framework, this text examines the emergence of the savior archetype; the hero who rises up during a period of liminality to restore order to the cosmos. Following on, an exploration of Baudrillard’s concepts of simulation and simulacra is provided, including a discussion of the media’s deleterious effect on modern man’s understanding of the ‘real’. Moving on, an overview of the concepts of chaos and cosmos in the ancient Persian religion Zoroastrianism are presented, followed by an investigation into the transformative role of the performance of images beginning in the second order of simulacra. Finally, the anarchist notion of ‘the propaganda of the deed’ will be elucidated, it is here where we find strong parallels with the actions, methods, and intentions of the Christchurch shooter. The shooting is ultimately concluded to be a theatricalized, performative, right-wing accelerationist action, which can be understood as hyper-real.