Violence, omnipresent and elusive, constantly challenges our ability to understand it. This essay proposes an innovative approach to analyzing it, focusing on the subjectivity of the actors and the complex relationship between violence and meaning.
In its first section, the author explores the connection between violence and conflict, violence and the state, and violence and the media, establishing an essential critical framework. In the second section, he develops a new paradigm that prioritizes the concept of the subject, departing from traditional approaches. Through a novel typology, the different relationships between meaning and violence are examined, addressing phenomena such as cruelty, gratuitous violence, and "pure" violence.
With a committed perspective, the text analyzes emerging new forms of violence, from the centrality of victims to the transformative role...read more
