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Towards a Politics of ‘Pure Means’: Walter Benjamin and the Question of Violence

28/08/2011
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Towards a Politics of ‘Pure Means’: Walter Benjamin and the Question of Violence

In his compelling essay on the On the Critique of Violence (1921), Benjamin dwells on the dialectic of “mythic violence” consisting of law-preserving and law-constituting violence (Gewalt), which mutually presuppose each other. While the former might be identified with today’s bio-political microphysics of power, the latter refers to the constitutive act of establishing power...
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