ISIS and the pornography of violence /
'ISIS and the Pornography of Violence' is a collection of iconoclastic essays on ISIS, spanning the four-year period from its ascendancy in late 2014 to its demise in early 2018.
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London, UK ; New York, NY :
Anthem Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Front Matter; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; Chapter 1-3; Chapter 1 ISIS and The Theatre of Horror; The Pornography of Jihadism; Islamic State's Willing Executioners; ISIS and the Intimate Kill; ISIS and the War on Children; ISIS and the Logic of Shock; Why It's So Hard to Stop ISIS Propaganda; The Cyber Activists Who Want to Shut Down ISIS; Translating ISIS's Atrocity Porn; The Jihad Will Be Televised; ISIS and the Little Monsters; Why Do We Want to Watch Gory Jihadist Propaganda Videos?; Inside Europol's Online War Against ISIS
- Chapter 2 The Meaning and Appeal of Jihadist ViolenceTerrorism with a Human Face; What Exactly Is the Allure of Islamic State?; What Motivates Terrorists?; Pilgrims to the Islamic State; The Challenge of Jihadi Cool; Reborn into Terrorism; Is There Any "Logic" to Suicide Terrorism?; What If Some Suicide Bombers Are Just Suicidal?; What's the Right Way to Think About Religion and ISIS?; ISIS in the Caribbean; How a British College Student Became an ISIS Matchmaker; Osama bin Laden's Secret Masturbation Fatwa; ISIS Will Fail, but What About the Idea of ISIS?
- The Islamic State's Shock-and-Bore TerrorismThe "Softer" Side of Jihadists; Chapter 3 How Not to Think About ISIS; The Zoolander Theory of Terrorism; The Pre-Terrorists Among Us; Europe's Joint-Smoking, Gay-Club Hopping Terrorists; What ISIS Women Want; Anjem Choudary and the Criminalization of Dissent; "The Real Housewives of ISIS" Deserves a Laugh; Trump's Travel Ban Will Not Help ISIS Recruitment; Terrorists Are Not Snowflakes; All That We'll Never Know About Manchester Bomber Salman Ramadan Abedi; Can Ex-Militants, and Their Redemption Stories, Stop Anyone from Joining Islamic State?
- The Myth of the ISIS PatsyWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Violent Extremism; End Matter; Notes; Preface; Chapter 1 ISIS and the Theatre of Horror; Chapter 2 The Meaning and Appeal of Jihadist Violence; Chapter 3 How Not To Think About ISIS; Credits; Index