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A study of self-terrorism in everyday life

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2025, (47), pp.343~364
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : January 7, 2025
  • Accepted : January 25, 2025
  • Published : January 31, 2025

HUI-TEAK KIM 1

1중앙대학교

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ABSTRACT

The aim of this study is to examine the terrorism that the subject exercises on himself in everyday life and its mechanisms. The concepts of linguistics and semiology have played a major role in the study of everyday life. Our study begins with the thought of Roland Barthes. He revealed that at the core of the mechanisms of this terrorism is the language that Barthes called the myth. Barthes analyzes the Gaston Dominici affair from the perspective of language. Dominici is condemned not by the law, but by the language shaped and disseminated by the bourgeoisie. Through this affair, it appears that all members of society must strive to respect the standards set by the anonymous bourgeoisie, inaccessible standards, and that in this process, self-repression is exercised. To define terrorism towards oneself and terrorism, this study introduces the points of view of Henri Lefebvre and Jean Baudrillard. Lefebvre defines the overregulation and self-repression of oneself to conform to the norms set by an anonymous group as ‘terrorism’, and he calls a society where these practices are common a ‘terrorist society’. Baudrillard criticizes the fact that in this process of terrorism, our experience as reality is ignored and only the play of rigorous self-repression exists.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.