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Title: Violence and Postmodernism: A Conceptual Analysis (Essay)
Author : Reason Papers
Release Date : January 22, 2010
Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
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1. Introduction The term "violence" is used by many postmodernists to refer to a wide array of phenomena. Deleuze, for example, describes as violence the relation between Plato's Forms and the concrete, changing entities of our world. (1) Kristeva refers to the separation of the mother's body and infant's body at birth as violent. (2) Baudrillard takes "the supremacy of technical efficiency and positivity, total organization, integral circulation, and the equivalence of all exchanges" of the global media and information culture to be violence. (3) In a section of his Of Grammatology, entitled "The Violence of the Letter," Derrida argues that there is "the violence of the arche-writing, the violence of the difference, of classification, and of the system of appellation." (4) According to Derrida, the conditions that allow for the conceptualization of everything, including violence, are themselves violent. (See also Derrida's Writing and Difference, where he writes that speech must have an element of violence to it in order to be meaningful. (5)) Judith Butler agrees with him and suggests that concealing the violence that she and Derrida find in conceptualization is itself violence. (6) Monique Wittig writes that there was violence at the core of her effort to find a new form of writing because it aims at shocking the reader. (7) And Lyotard asserts that since his book L'Economie Libidinale does not lend itself to a dialogue between author and reader, it "perpetrates a kind of violence." (8) Other examples abound.