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Hermeneutic Terrorism: The Weaponization of Meaning and the Rationalization of Paranoia in Digital Discourse
Here is a concise excerpt based on the academic version, suitable for the “Excerpt” field in WordPress or a social media preview: **Excerpt** > Drawing on Foucault’s analysis of power/knowledge and Ricoeur’s hermeneutics of suspicion, this piece introduces the concept of **Hermeneutic Terrorism**: a systemic weaponization of meaning that collapses the space between an event and its interpretation. I argue…
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Hyper-Truth: The New Regime of Digital Reality
In the digital age, Foucault’s notion of a regime of truth has changed. It was a historically contingent system through which societies produced and regulated what counts as true. This notion has been supplanted by interlocking forms of epistemic, hermeneutic, and semiotic terrorism. These are not mere metaphors of violence but descriptive of how meaning, […]
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Writing: A Double-Edged Sword
Writing is a double-edged sword: sometimes it can make me feel better, offering a therapeutic release, while at other times it can be triggering and overwhelming, akin to picking at my own wounds. I lost a friend that I used to write a lot to, another psychiatrist, not my own psychiatrist. This loss has been […]