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Some things never disappear - violence, for example. Violence is ubiquitous and incessant but protean, varying its outward form according to the social constellation at hand. In Topology of Violence, the philosopher Byung-Chul Han considers the shift in violence from the visible to the invisible, from the frontal to the viral to the self-inflicted, from brute force to mediated force, from the real to the virtual. Violence, Han tells us, has gone from the negative - explosive, massive, and martial - to the positive, wielded without enmity or domination. This, he says, creates the false impression that violence has disappeared. Anonymized, desubjectified, systemic, violence conceals itself because it has become one with society.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Topology of Violence
• Author: Han, Byung-Chul (Professor, Universitat der Kunste Berlin)
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168
• EAN: 9780262534956
• ISBN: 9780262534956
• ID: 18167914
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
• Weight: 134 g
• Dimensions: 116 × 178 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. April 2018

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