Yildirim, Seyda Nur2023-10-192023-10-19202201046-29371479-5760https://doi.org/10.1080/10462937.2021.2001562https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/5429Although terrorism has a complex genealogy as a political concept, contemporary discussions on new terrorism use a reductionist discourse on the legitimacy of violence. In this article, I discuss the performativity of terrorism - its repetitive, citational, and necessarily discursive composition within the established social system - in the context of Pornography (2007) by Simon Stephens. I argue that subversion of conventional playwriting techniques in Pornography reveals the complex social and political dynamics that continually refigure terrorism as the counter-image of war.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessTerrorismperformativityexperimental theaterPerformanceSimon StephensPerformancePornographyArticle3448142WOS:00071822930000110.1080/10462937.2021.20015622-s2.0-85119366206Q1