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Titre Une violence qui se présuppose : la question de la violence de Benjamin à Deleuze et Guattari
Auteur Vladimir Milisavljevi?
Mir@bel Revue Actuel Marx
Numéro no 52, octobre 2013 Deleuze/Guattari
Rubrique / Thématique
Dossier : Deleuze/Guattari
Page 78-91
Résumé anglais A Violence which Presupposes Itself: The question of Violence from Benjamin to Deleuze and Guattari
This text examines some parallels between Walter Benjamin's “critique of violence” and the theory of violence proposed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Whatever the differences between these two approaches, they both share an important common feature, defining the violence of state and law in terms of a “violence which presupposes itself”. This circular structure of the concept of violence renders utterly problematic the attempts to envisage a wholly other, revolutionary form of violence, which could be opposed to that of the state or its law. Benjamin's hypothesis of a divine violence which breaks the circle of the mythical one, as well as the Deleuzo-Guattarian concept of the war machine, have been devised in order to come to terms with this situation. However, these concepts are not intended to serve as a basis for the legitimation of possible acts of counter-violence. What they assert is rather the fundamental and irreducible unavailability of the event in the sphere of social struggles, where our actions can neither be calculated in advance as to their results nor be ultimately justified.
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