Guattari and Terror: Radicalisation as Singularisation

Radicalisation has burgeoned into a multidisciplinary subfield of terrorism studies. Many recent publications describe it as a ‘process’, as in this typical definition: ‘radicalization can be loosely defined as a process where a previously passive individual changes to become more revolutionary, militant or extremist, and has been closely tied with those involved in terrorism’ (McGilloway, Ghosh and Bhui 2015: 39; see also Aistrope 2016: 182; Crone 2016; Demetriou and Bosi 2016; Hafez and Mullins 2015: 959; Leistedt 2016; Maskaliūnaitė 2015: 9; Neumann 2013: 874; Powers 2014: 2; Pruyt and Kwakkel 2014; Tsintsadze-Maass and Maass 2014). Radicalisation is a process of