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Violence (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an act of relating oneself to an object such that the object is made into a means whose nature is unconnected or alien to the object.

Violence (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠at the center of the system, and in effect it is sacralizes and there is no clear way out of the problematic of violence.

Violence (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠nothing but the illusion of an opacity that is posited so only to then be made transparent. That is to say, violence is when end governs the means of the object from the final point of the process, using them as pieces on a chessboard to carry out its own strategy to the end.

Violence (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠positively sacred... it is, in the form of negation and annihilation, at the very center of hegel's thought.

Violence (n.) destroys ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠itself in its very conception — a will cancelling a will — and so must itself be cancelled by a second violence.