ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that there exists a powerful and terrifying link between terrorism, workers and businesses. Images of safety and security are crucial in combating the terrorism contranym – both terrorism as political violence, and the emotional terrorism, are vulnerable to the appearance of effective security. Attempting to design out the dangers, risks and threats of terrorism has long been at the forefront of architectural thinking. The confines organizational spaces in cities that the human body interacts with other bodies forming the social architecture of precarious and vulnerable city-living. Businesses in cities throughout the world rely heavily on their multicultural workforces. Terror-work represents the mundane and everyday image that belies deep anxieties and fears held by consuming audiences – audiences in which city-dwelling workers are contemporarily well represented. The city dwellers the world over a referent for terrorism, violence, images, risk, commodity, entertainment, witnessing and spectatorship.
