Communicating Terror and Trauma

Abstract

Sometimes we find that traditional forms of social and political theory seem powerless to illuminate contemporary realities. We discover that we are living in new technological worlds with experience being formed through new technologies that transform senses of space and time. We discover that we have to think in new ways and cannot assimilate what we have experienced within inherited categories. Often this means experiencing a feeling of disorientation as we find ourselves feeling uncertain, even false, when we speak about what we have witnessed or experienced for ourselves.