Self Defense: A Philosophy of Violence
When we talk about self-defense or boundary setting, what mostly gets prioritized is individual safety.
Cristien Storm • Living in Liberation: Boundary Setting, Self Care and Social Change
Violence is the power of the state; imagination and nonviolence the power of civil society.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
It is useless for women to blame violence on men, and it would be futile for men to blame violence on women. Violence is built into both of us.
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
“the power of the state’s criminal system against itself … hijacking the booking process, enabling the state to produce its own strategic blunder, its own tragic actions.” They enact instead powerful forms of subversion. “They give us a chance to take the measure of these men and women in the very heat of battle, and perhaps to take measure of ours
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