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On the 11 th September 2001, two American airliners plummeted into the world trade centre towers, causing the towers to fall and over 3,000 lives to be lost. The series of events was described by Peter Dale Scott, author of ‘the road to 9/11, as being the worst case of homicide in all of America’s history. This statement cannot be argued against, there were over 3000 lives lost on the day of 9/11, which devastated families, communities and the world. However, there are many questions which can be raised as to the perpetrators of this act of terror, and what fuelled the attacks of 9/11 to take place in the first instance? Since the advent of 9/11, the world as we know it had drastically changed. The theory and practise of security both on a national and local level has arguably become tighter, we are now living in a society which favours suspicion, surveillance and monitoring of those who we believe pose a threat to our society and our way of life. These are usually presumptuous an...

Zizek’s violence is a fresh and intriguing outlook onto the concept of violence. Violence is often perceived as being just physical, however Zizek proposes the compelling notion that the violence we see can be epistemologically understood by exploring political and economic systems. More namely, exploring consumer capitalism and Liberalism as systems which have generated systematic violence. The typologies of violence as being objective, subjective, systematic and symbolic are identified and throughout the book, you can begin to see where these terms of violence can be applied to the jigsaw puzzle that is society and individualism. Empirically speaking, Zizek explores current examples of where violence is displayed on a wider scale. Violent political outbreaks in Israel and Palestine are named examples, as well as drawing conclusions from global terrorism. Political philosophers such as Marx and Engels are also referred too throughout. I cannot help but agree with the notion...