{"title":"The performativity of terrorism: subversive experimentalist techniques in Pornography (2007) by Simon Stephens","authors":"Şeyda Nur Yıldırım","doi":"10.1080/10462937.2021.2001562","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although terrorism has a complex genealogy as a political concept, contemporary discussions on “new terrorism” use a reductionist discourse on the legitimacy of violence. In this article, I discuss the “performativity” of terrorism – its repetitive, citational, and necessarily discursive composition within the established social system – in the context of Pornography (2007) by Simon Stephens. I argue that subversion of conventional playwriting techniques in Pornography reveals the complex social and political dynamics that continually refigure terrorism as the counter-image of war.","PeriodicalId":46504,"journal":{"name":"Text and Performance Quarterly","volume":"42 1","pages":"34 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2021-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Text and Performance Quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10462937.2021.2001562","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT Although terrorism has a complex genealogy as a political concept, contemporary discussions on “new terrorism” use a reductionist discourse on the legitimacy of violence. In this article, I discuss the “performativity” of terrorism – its repetitive, citational, and necessarily discursive composition within the established social system – in the context of Pornography (2007) by Simon Stephens. I argue that subversion of conventional playwriting techniques in Pornography reveals the complex social and political dynamics that continually refigure terrorism as the counter-image of war.
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