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26 | Wake Up and Choose Divine Violence: Walter Benjamin w/ Dr. Ashley Bohrer

What's Left of Philosophy

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Law Making and Law Preserving

The aim of a political movement or a political struggle is to mitigate violence. If you see violence as an external, alien imposition that emerges in a polity, then the very tools you are using to mitigate it actually end up reproducing it. And so i actually think that this yo asks us to change our perspective of what it is we are doing when we talk about violence.

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