(Re)Naming and Familiar Resistance to Violence
The more harm we become accustomed to, the more harm we become prepared to inflict ourselves. It becomes organic. It becomes biomechanical. It becomes biolence. However, in spite of so … Read More
Tag: Violence-Customs
Putting the “path of least resistance” model in context: An eliminative hierarchy of selfhood towards peace with Otherness
Following from the previous section, the essentially three-tiered “path of least resistance” model for overcoming violence-societies includes an essential deliberate movement and societal collaboration of self-interest in health and well-being. … Read More
Collective, historical denial of incest as motivator of violence-customs
Elementary, communitarian democracy does not suffer from budget constraints or amoral, substrate alliances with terror. Neoliberal doctrines and passive communities ally against a world post-violence. It is not that I … Read More
Hannah Arendt’s Othering of Violence as Promotion of Institutional Power
Reading Hannah Arendt’s text, On Violence, one takes away that political as well as non-political faith in consequential violence exists as if it is a means of imposing order on … Read More
Violence-Customs and the Normativity of Political Withdrawal
I have discussed violence-narratives in a variety of settings, from posts at Trek Ethicist to inlaid through my initial essay for this project “Labors of Freedom: God and Overcoming Violence-Societies.” … Read More