Rock the Global

Dennis Robert Redmond dredmond at efn.org
Mon Nov 12 17:58:35 PST 2001


On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Ian Murray wrote:


> How is violence a non-moral category?

Morality always entails a subjective choice. But those choices always depend on historical situations, i.e. how subjects think of themselves, what tools they have on hand -- something which fascinated Sartre in the 1960s, many of his categories, like derealization, the practico-inert, and group seriality are attempts at explaining how markets produce violence through artificially-imposed scarcity. In many ways, violence is, weird as it sounds, an aesthetic category rather than a juridical one -- very much like its ideological twin, the ideological topos otherwise known as Crime.

-- Dennis



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