How and Why Violence Functions
Slavoj Žižek
Jonathan
Jul 2, 20262013
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The main ambition of this book is to bring together subjective violence with the objective violence that is its underside and precondition. “Systemic violence is thus something like the notorious ‘dark matter’ of physics,” Zizek writes: invisible to naked eye. Zizek offers a rather cool and at times cruel analysis of the varieties of objective violence.
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If there is a central thesis of the book, it is that we focus all too much onto what I call subjective violence. Our next ethical step is to learn to be to accept to be responsible even for this objec
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