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Topology of Violence

Topology of Violence

Han, Byung-Chul
DeMarco, Amanda

Paperback

Series: Untimely Meditations, Book 9

PhilosophyCriminology

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0262534959
ISBN13: 9780262534956
Publisher: Mit Pr
Published: Apr 20 2018
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.40 Width: 4.60 Depth: 7.10
Language: English
One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity.

Some things never disappear--violence, for example. Violence is ubiquitous and incessant but protean, varying its outward form according to the social constellation at hand. In Topology of Violence, the philosopher Byung-Chul Han considers the shift in violence from the visible to the invisible, from the frontal to the viral to the self-inflicted, from brute force to mediated force, from the real to the virtual. Violence, Han tells us, has gone from the negative--explosive, massive, and martial--to the positive, wielded without enmity or domination. This, he says, creates the false impression that violence has disappeared. Anonymized, desubjectified, systemic, violence conceals itself because it has become one with society.

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