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The Thematic and Aesthetic Qualities of ISIS media production

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Author(s): Afif J. Arabi

Publication date (Print): June 2019

Conference name: Politics of the Machine Beirut 2019 (POM2019)

Conference theme: Politics of the Machine

Conference date: 11-14 June 2019

Keywords: Terrorism, ISIS, al-Qaeda, Media Production, Aesthetics, Collective representation

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Conference name: Politics of the Machine Beirut 2019

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Conference location: Beirut, Lebanon

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Al-Arabiyya TV Special Report 2017 Interview with Abu Mus’ab al-Urduni. Al-Arabiya TV Available at: https://www.alarabiya.net/ar/arab-and-world/2017/02/11 5 Apr 2019
M. BattaniM. Mankel 2017 Terrorist Aesthetics as Ideal Types: from Spectacle to ‘Vicious Lottery’ Contemporary Aesthetics 15 1
A. Berleant 2009 Art, Terrorism and the Negative Sublime Contemporary Aesthetics 7 1 14
T. Botz-Bornstein 2017 The “futurist” aesthetics of ISIS Journal of Aesthetics & Culture 9 1 1 13
R. Bresson 1977 Notes on cinematography United States
Judith Butler 2009 Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? London Verso
C. C. ByunE. J. Hollander 2015 Explaining the Intensity of the Arab Spring Digest of Middle East Studies 24 1 26 46
A. Chaplin 2005 Art and Embodiment: Biological and Phenomenological Contributions to Understanding Beauty and the Aesthetic Contemporary Aesthetics 3 1 21
R. Eubin 2017 Spectacles of Sovereignty in Digital Time: ISIS Executions, Visual Rhetoric and Sovereign Power Perspectives on Politics 15 4 1007 1033
J. Fleishman 2015 Islamic State and its increasingly sophisticated cinema of terror Los Angeles Times 26 February Available at: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-ca-isis-video-horror-20150301-story.html (Accessed 19 May 2019
M. Foucault 1990 The history of sexuality: An introduction I Translated by R. Hurley New York Vintage
S. M. Friis 2015 Beyond anything we have ever seen: beheading videos and the visibility of violence in the war against ISIS International Affairs 91 4 725 746
H. Giroux 2014 ISIS and the spectacle of terrorism: Resisting mainstream workstations of fear Philosophers for Change Available at: https://philosophersforchange.org/2014/10/07 (Accessed: 19 May 2019
L. Goldsmith 2019 The Body is a Fact Senses of Cinema 90 Available at: http://sensesofcinema.com/2019/valerie-massadian/the-body-is-a-fact (Accessed: 15 May 2019
A. S. Hashim 2014 The Islamic State: From al-Qaeda Affiliate to Caliphate Middle East Policy XXI 4 69 83
HattonT. ArthurM. E. Nielsen 2016 ’War on Terror’ in our backyard: effects of framing and violent ISIS propaganda on anti-Muslim prejudice Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression 8 3 163 176
J. Juris 2005 Violence Performed and Imagined Critique of Anthropology 25 4 413 432
P. W. Khan 2009 Torture and Democratic Violence Ratio Juris 22 2 244 259
H. Kozlowska 2014 Should we be seeing gruesome acts and if so where? New York Times 25 August Available at: http://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/25 (Accessed: 15 May 2019
M. Kraidy 2017 This is why the Islamic State shocks the world with its graphically violent imagery The Washington Post 9 February Available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/05/19/ (Accessed: 19 May 2019
S. Malterre 2014 ISIS jihadists put out Hollywood-style propaganda film Observers.france24. com 13 June Available at: https://observers.france24.com/en/20140613 (Accessed: 19 May 2019
J. Roberts 2014 Rethinking the Sublime: Is There an Aesthetics of Terrorism? Note by Fogarasi György Americana: E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary 10 1 Available at: http://americanaejournal.hu/vol10no1/roberts (Accessed: 15 May 2019
M. Roelofs 2014 The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic London Bloomsbury
M. Sienkiewicz 2018 Arguing with ISIS: web 2.0, open source journalism, and narrative disruption Critical Studies in Media Communication 35 1 122 135
R. Sinnerbrink 2016 Cinempathy: Phenomenology, Cognitivism, and Moving Images Contemporary Aesthetics 8 1 14
P. Smith 1999 The Elementary Forms of Place and Their Transformations: A Durkheimian Model Qualitative Sociology 22 1 13 36
E. Stakelbeck 2015 ISIS Exposed: Beheadings, Slavery, and the Hellish Reality of Radical Islam Washington, DC Regency Publishing
G. Thompson 2017 Parallels in propaganda? A comparative historical analysis of Islamic State and the Nazi Party Journal of Public Relations Research 29 1 51 66
C. Winter 2017 Apocalypse, later: a longitudinal study of the Islamic State brand Critical Studies in Media Communication 35 1 103 121

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[1] Al-Arabiyya TV Special Report 2017 Interview with Abu Mus’ab al-Urduni. Al-Arabiya TV Available at: https://www.alarabiya.net/ar/arab-and-world/2017/02/11 5 Apr 2019

[2] M. BattaniM. Mankel 2017 Terrorist Aesthetics as Ideal Types: from Spectacle to ‘Vicious Lottery’ Contemporary Aesthetics 15 1

[3] A. Berleant 2009 Art, Terrorism and the Negative Sublime Contemporary Aesthetics 7 1 14

[4] T. Botz-Bornstein 2017 The “futurist” aesthetics of ISIS Journal of Aesthetics & Culture 9 1 1 13

[5] R. Bresson 1977 Notes on cinematography United States

[6] Judith Butler 2009 Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? London Verso

[7] C. C. ByunE. J. Hollander 2015 Explaining the Intensity of the Arab Spring Digest of Middle East Studies 24 1 26 46

[8] A. Chaplin 2005 Art and Embodiment: Biological and Phenomenological Contributions to Understanding Beauty and the Aesthetic Contemporary Aesthetics 3 1 21

[9] R. Eubin 2017 Spectacles of Sovereignty in Digital Time: ISIS Executions, Visual Rhetoric and Sovereign Power Perspectives on Politics 15 4 1007 1033

[10] J. Fleishman 2015 Islamic State and its increasingly sophisticated cinema of terror Los Angeles Times 26 February Available at: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-ca-isis-video-horror-20150301-story.html (Accessed 19 May 2019

[11] M. Foucault 1990 The history of sexuality: An introduction I Translated by R. Hurley New York Vintage

[12] S. M. Friis 2015 Beyond anything we have ever seen: beheading videos and the visibility of violence in the war against ISIS International Affairs 91 4 725 746

[13] H. Giroux 2014 ISIS and the spectacle of terrorism: Resisting mainstream workstations of fear Philosophers for Change Available at: https://philosophersforchange.org/2014/10/07 (Accessed: 19 May 2019

[14] L. Goldsmith 2019 The Body is a Fact Senses of Cinema 90 Available at: http://sensesofcinema.com/2019/valerie-massadian/the-body-is-a-fact (Accessed: 15 May 2019

[15] A. S. Hashim 2014 The Islamic State: From al-Qaeda Affiliate to Caliphate Middle East Policy XXI 4 69 83

[16] HattonT. ArthurM. E. Nielsen 2016 ’War on Terror’ in our backyard: effects of framing and violent ISIS propaganda on anti-Muslim prejudice Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression 8 3 163 176

[17] J. Juris 2005 Violence Performed and Imagined Critique of Anthropology 25 4 413 432

[18] P. W. Khan 2009 Torture and Democratic Violence Ratio Juris 22 2 244 259

[19] H. Kozlowska 2014 Should we be seeing gruesome acts and if so where? New York Times 25 August Available at: http://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/25 (Accessed: 15 May 2019

[20] M. Kraidy 2017 This is why the Islamic State shocks the world with its graphically violent imagery The Washington Post 9 February Available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/05/19/ (Accessed: 19 May 2019

[21] S. Malterre 2014 ISIS jihadists put out Hollywood-style propaganda film Observers.france24. com 13 June Available at: https://observers.france24.com/en/20140613 (Accessed: 19 May 2019

[22] J. Roberts 2014 Rethinking the Sublime: Is There an Aesthetics of Terrorism? Note by Fogarasi György Americana: E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary 10 1 Available at: http://americanaejournal.hu/vol10no1/roberts (Accessed: 15 May 2019

[23] M. Roelofs 2014 The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic London Bloomsbury

[24] M. Sienkiewicz 2018 Arguing with ISIS: web 2.0, open source journalism, and narrative disruption Critical Studies in Media Communication 35 1 122 135

[25] R. Sinnerbrink 2016 Cinempathy: Phenomenology, Cognitivism, and Moving Images Contemporary Aesthetics 8 1 14

[26] P. Smith 1999 The Elementary Forms of Place and Their Transformations: A Durkheimian Model Qualitative Sociology 22 1 13 36

[27] E. Stakelbeck 2015 ISIS Exposed: Beheadings, Slavery, and the Hellish Reality of Radical Islam Washington, DC Regency Publishing

[28] G. Thompson 2017 Parallels in propaganda? A comparative historical analysis of Islamic State and the Nazi Party Journal of Public Relations Research 29 1 51 66

[29] C. Winter 2017 Apocalypse, later: a longitudinal study of the Islamic State brand Critical Studies in Media Communication 35 1 103 121

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