Learning from Las Vegas

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Arena Magazine no. 150

John Hinkson

Oct 2017

Abstract:

Autonomous mass killers-terrorism from within?

The massacre in Las Vegas carried out by Stephen Paddock is one more affront to our sense of an ordered world, of being able to take our everyday social world for granted. Is it possible to categorise this event and give it social meaning? The category ‘terror’ helps, but this turns out to be complicated.

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