We need a global theory of violence, one that reconceptualises its lexicon as the current human practices of massacre turn defenceless people into exemplary targets of destruction. Terms like "War" and "Terrorism", faithful to traditional nomenclature, persist in observing the various devastating scenarios from the perspective of the regular or irregular warrior. The geopolitical realm, however, has changed. Defenceless victims, vulnerable people, and civilians butchered at random are the ordinary protagonists here. Professor Cavarero proposes that the newly coined category of "Horrorism" aims at interrogating the Zeitgeist from their point of view.
