phobocracy

plural phobocracies

1. uncountableusuallyA system under which society is governed by fear; or a society of this kind.

   Has international pressure has finally forced South Korea to abandon years of official apathy about the phobocracy that is North Korea?

   2006 June 20, Joshua, “The End of Sunshine?”, in Free Korea

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   According to Mondzain, fear has become the most common social norm, a social bond that tends to replace any other forms of public discussion or solidarity. Fear binds and the most accomplished forms of power have become phobocracies, thus installing “the reign of fear that feeds off images and uses them to establish its domination.” (Mondzain 2007, p. 73, my translation).

   2019 November 25, Fred Dalmasso, “Public Spheres, Counterpublics’ Fears and Syncopolitics”, in Humanities, volume 9, number 2, →DOI, page 31 seqq.