ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how terrorism is consistently brought into the political and controlled by the power structure: specifically the ways in which language is used to create a specific knowledge structure and in which discursive practices represent the mobilization of power. It focuses on two movies namely In the Name of the Father and The Devil's Own, confronted with images of the practices of national security discourse used to appropriate and manipulate terrorism. The chapter illustrates how language, knowledge, and power, utilized in national security discourse, have incorporated terrorism through a specific, highly controlled "regime of truth". In statecraft, the relationship between power and knowledge is one of institutions and techniques that employ diverse discursive elements, linguistic and nonlinguistic, that include agents, architectural arrangements, regulations, laws, scientific statements, and morality. Terrorism has progressively materialized and assumed a transformative role against power regimes.
