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Globalno ratište i glasovi iz pustinje
Global Battlefield and the Voices from the Desert

Author(s): Sead Alić
Subject(s): Media studies, Theology and Religion, Security and defense
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: war; god; authoritarianism; religion; mass media; Paris; terrorism;

Summary/Abstract: The concept of authoritarianism is used in the text as a way to shed light on the authoritarian political and military activities of those countries that ignore the modern civilisation’s legal and moral achievements in an attempt to “envelop time” in concepts such as propaganda, war and terrorism. Reflections on war include theses by Sigmund Freud, Erich Fromm, Claude Lévi- Strauss, Friedrich Nietzsche, Noam Chomsky, and other authors who “expand the framework” of war. This broadened context is then used in order to observe the phenomena of “global war” and “media war”, and the terrorist attack in Paris. The goal is to highlight the new/old role of the mass media’s “manufacturing consent”, and to clarify the role and power of media in the current rise of terrorism in the world.

  • Issue Year: 37/2017
  • Issue No: 01/145
  • Page Range: 71-81
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Croatian