christopher langlois - Blog - Fearlessness Movement2024-03-28T18:45:33Zhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/blog/feed/tag/christopher+langloisIntroducing Terrorcriticism: In an Age of Terror (New Technical Paper 69)https://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/blog/introducing-terrorcriticism-in-an-age-of-terror-new-technical-pap2017-11-16T21:16:24.000Z2017-11-16T21:16:24.000ZR.Michael Fisherhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/members/RMichaelFisher<div><p align="center" style="text-align: left;">Here is the 4th Technical Paper in the series of five articles on ecocriticism: "<strong>Fearanalysis and Ecocriticism in the Light of Terrorcriticism</strong>" (<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1996016?profile=original" target="_self">Technical Paper No. 69</a>). See Abstract below. </p>
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<p align="center"><i>Technical Paper No. 69</i></p>
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<p><b>Abstract</b> – After a brief review of the author’s conceptualization and praxis of <i>fearanalysis</i> (different but analogous to <i>psychoanalysis</i>), he applies this method to ecocriticism (especially, Estok’s “Ecophobia Hypothesis”) in the “Age of Terror.” A study of books using “Age of Terror” in their title and other discourses on “terror” (especially, but not only post-9/11), convinced the author that there was need for <i>terrorcriticism</i> a new branch of literary criticism contextualized within <i>ecocriticism</i> (but not restricted to it), that could offer useful critical analysis of the “Age of Terror” discourses and representations of terror and the human-planetary future. Fearanalysis as previously configured is being challenged to expand to a greater inclusivity of excess-extremes for the 21<sup>st</sup> century (e.g., an “Age of Terror”), of which <i>terror</i> conceptualization and its problematics provides a most useful platform to the author’s agenda of promoting the global Fearlessness Movement for manifesting a “Fearless Age.”</p>
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