Senses of Violence?

Abstract

The disaster is the time when one can no longer - by desire, ruse, or violence - risk the life which one seeks, through this risk, to prolong. It is the time when the negative falls silent and when in place of men comes the infinite calm (the effervescence) which does not embody itself or make itself intelligible" (Blanchot (1995) The Writing of the Disaster, 40). The idea of the panel is to discuss the contemporary signs of violence and bare life in its different representations. We are far too often encountered the representation of political violence, suffering and death. Simultaneously, political theory and traditional political concepts such as sovereignty in ways in which Max Weber once defined it, are in a diffusing state in attempting to characterize the ongoing global violence. The distinctions between political friend and enemy as characterized during the 20th Century, are questioned with new forms of political communities without clear spacial limits, physical space or land. For the panel discussion, I am looking for papers that would discuss the transformation of traditional political concepts, and search for alternate ways - besides concepts, theory and language, also through vision, experiences or expressions of fear/ humiliation/ threat - to offer perspectives of political violence as it is understood or sensed today.

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