Terror: When images become weapons by Charlotte Klonk (2021)

TerrorWhen Images Become Weapons\nAuthor(s): Charlotte Klonk\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Manchester University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Manchester University Press\nISBN-13: 9781526147134, 978-1526147134\nSynopsis\nIn June 2016, a French policeman was stabbed to death in a Paris suburb. His assailant gained access to the victims flat, where he murdered the policemans partner in front of their three-year-old son. While negotiating with members of the special forces, the murderer posted live footage of himself and his victims on Facebook. Acting in the name of the so-called Islamic State, the perpetrator, who would later be shot and killed, single-handedly applied one of the fundamental tenets of modern terrorism: it is not the act of violence itself that counts, but the images of it that are brought into circulation. Once released, nothing and no one can eradicate these images and the visual battle that ensues knows no winners or ceasefire.\n\nWith the expert eye of an art hi.