| My hypoltheses concerning the United States led War on Terrorism are derived from the German novelist, critic and social theorist Ernst Jünger?s outstanding 1930 essay on ?Total Mobilization?. Accordingly, this article explores Jünger?s ?Total Mobilization? and what I label the ?totally mobilized body? as the philosophical underpinning of the War on Terrorism from the perspective of my own conceptions of ?hypermodern total mobilization?, ?globalitarian rule? and the ?neoconservative body?. From this post-Jüngerian or hypermodern viewpoint, the examination of the War on Terrorism as offered by social theorists such as Jean Baudrillard and Zygmunt Bauman, Gilles Deleuze, Douglas Kellner and Paul Virilio is analytically evaluated and developed. For their research on the ?spirit of terrorism? and the new ?planetary frontier-land?, control societies, the momentous events of September 11, 2001, and ?globalitarianism? can help us to understand the complexities and multiplicities of the neoconservative body. The article concludes by probing the distinction between Jünger?s idea of modern total mobilization and my own hypermodern notions of ?egalitarian rule? and the ?neoegalitarian body?. |