Just as everything is political, just as everything is ideological, it is true, or at least, in the current epoch of postmodern capitalism, that everything is violent. But just like the domination of ideology, which pervades every aspect of social discourse, artistic production, and cultural life, just like the dominance of the political, which influences social and cultural developments and relations, and even, just like the economic, which in the classic Marxist paradigm determines superstructural life in the last instance, so too, does violence play a requisite role in society. Here, in this short blog, I wish to explicate on four distinct types/discourses of violence that I find pervasive in society: the violence of the status quo; the justified violence of the past; the lesser violence of our “good” society; and finally, the societal seperation of “good” and “bad” violence. This list is by no means an exhaustive account of all forms of violence that permeate through capitalist society, but rather, this brief inquiry hopes to at least provide introductory insight to an important tool for capital’s domination over society.
A Short Reflection on Violence
A Short Reflection on Violence
A Short Reflection on Violence
Just as everything is political, just as everything is ideological, it is true, or at least, in the current epoch of postmodern capitalism, that everything is violent. But just like the domination of ideology, which pervades every aspect of social discourse, artistic production, and cultural life, just like the dominance of the political, which influences social and cultural developments and relations, and even, just like the economic, which in the classic Marxist paradigm determines superstructural life in the last instance, so too, does violence play a requisite role in society. Here, in this short blog, I wish to explicate on four distinct types/discourses of violence that I find pervasive in society: the violence of the status quo; the justified violence of the past; the lesser violence of our “good” society; and finally, the societal seperation of “good” and “bad” violence. This list is by no means an exhaustive account of all forms of violence that permeate through capitalist society, but rather, this brief inquiry hopes to at least provide introductory insight to an important tool for capital’s domination over society.