Volume 20, Numbers 1-2

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This issue engages the diverse and potentially paradoxical relations of violence, politics, and ethics.  What form does violence take in philosophy and the arts?  Does globalization enable a different understanding of violence, that is, an alternative way of imagining the subject and object of violence?  How does violence negotiate the discourses of resistance, commodification or subjectification?  With regard to ineffable effects of dominance and aggression, along with various representations and repetitions of arbitrary violence, can and how might violence be productively, even progressively, reinscribed and rethought? Does violence have a history?

Contents

Peter Hitchcock
Revolutionary Violence

Leerom Medovoi
Swords and Regulation

Rick Elmore
Revisiting Violence and Life

Zahi Zalloua
Betting on Ressentiment

William O. Saas
Charismatic Violence

William V. Spanos
Arab Spring, 2011

Jeremy Engels
The Rhetoric of Violence

John Riofrio
Spectacles of Incarceration

Tim Matts and Aidan Tynan
Geotrauma and the Eco-clinic

Megan Foley
Peitho and Bia

Dustin E. Howes
Creating Necessity

Gerald David Naughton and Yulia Pushkarevskaya Naughton
The Awkward Aesthetics of Violence

Mihaela P. Harper
Turning to Debris

Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Sophia A. McClennen
Postscript on Violence